Infusing Western Life with Tibetan Buddhist Compassion
Sometimes people confuse Talent and Skill. Here’s one way to look at it: If it’s something you’ve worked hard to attain and sharpen, it’s a Skill. When it’s something you see in others, something you knee-jerk believe you can’t possibly attain, it’s a Talent. And being jealous of others’ perceived Talents (yes, which are almost … Read more
The Challenge, The Beauty The Dharma path is full of significant Challenge, as well as great Beauty . . . each of which arises as we deepen our ongoing understandings of Self and Other. To help jump-start your progress, consider the following perspectives: The other person is always Right . . . Right about her … Read more
Perhaps for some of us, at times the Dharma mind is really just another aspect of self-centeredness . . . a high-regarding aspect of “me” . . . a new self-identity that I treasure and don’t want to lose because I like how it makes me feel. It makes me feel good to tell others … Read more
QUALITY (noun) 1. the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something. 2. a distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something. If you can reliably, and without drama, deliver precisely what you have promised, this is Quality. Quality happens when a … Read more
I recently spent a few days with my daughter Claire, who came for a visit from Orlando. Here for a week, the two of us went ‘exploring’ in the San Juan Islands region for a couple of days. She had never been to the Pacific Northwest and marveled at the cool sunny weather, breaching Orcas, … Read more
More and more the presence of Watson, IBM’s famous artificial intelligence (AI) machine that won TV’s ‘Jeopardy’ game show a few years ago, is becoming ubiquitous. We see its speed and brilliance promoted in various business applications and educational projects as well as, most promisingly, in complex medical disease diagnosis. Certainly, Watson (logo above) brings enormous advantages, … Read more
Meditation. Comfort on the cushion. Less anxiety. Peacefulness. Simplicity. A good thing to be doing, if we have the time to do so . . . *** Here’s what else meditation, if genuinely engaged, will bring about: Your healthy food will become tastier . . . You’ll find yourself dancing, inwardly and outwardly, not only … Read more
Kathy and I saw the new Al Gore movie the other night. It’s a good film, perhaps a bit too much “Al” at times but it focuses on several environmental truths. One of them is that sea levels are rising . . . every day . . . and have been for awhile. About this, … Read more
Kathy and I saw the new Al Gore movie the other night. It’s a good film, perhaps a bit too much “Al” at times but it focuses on several environmental truths. One of them is that sea levels are rising . . . every day . . . and have been for awhile. About this, … Read more
Your Eclipse goggles. Once important, now obsolete. It makes no difference how many you’ve got, where you bought them, how much you paid or how stylish they were. Toss them away . . . they are now useless. *** Your delusions of self and all that come with them. No longer needed. They have been … Read more