Live the Dharma

What makes us human?
Is it our heart, opening…closing, like the windows of God’s eyes.
Is it our brains, constantly scanning, searching, hoping, thinking about what comes next.
Is it our emotions, feeling a single high for every low, always keeping us on our toes.
Is it our ability to recognize suffering? Is it our ability to acknowledge it?
Are [...]

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Would You Take the Red Pill?
You claim freedom and free will, but how far are you willing to go to back that up? Given the choice, would you take the red pill and risk everything to gain it all, or would you be afraid to leave your “quasi” life behind and cower behind the blue [...]

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How To Be A Child At Heart

When we were children, we were not afraid of much. Maybe the dark or a bully down the street frightened us, but for the most part the only things we really thought about were wondering how things are, our hopes, and our dreams.
The wonders of the universe:
Although I remember [...]

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Are We Living in a Dreamworld?
My son asked me a few months ago (he was 5 at the time) if we were really in a dream and if life was real. At the time, I was blown away by the question and struggled to even formulate a token response. Instead, I simply said, [...]

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A Sad State of Affairs
Sure, there has always been suffering in the world. For many it is simply a way of life, but for those of us more fortunate, it should be seen as a wake up call. Several posts ago, I wrote about Struggling with Desire, which to me refers to getting caught in [...]

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I sat in a series of briefings and round table discussion today regarding ethnicity and race, which then brought about a great series of conversations about the effects of social and cultural groups from an international perspective. We talked about how we use our “groups” to construct the realities we live in and in doing [...]

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