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Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:49:56 -0700

When a mean person finds a stick, he becomes a mean person with a stick.

When a mean person finds religion, he becomes a mean person with religion.

Neither the stick, nor the religion is mean...the person is. Nice people can use walking sticks and religion in lovely ways. Mean people can use them in dastardly ways. Let's stop pointing fingers at the religion shall we, and take responsibility for our meanness and our gentleness. Let's look at ourselves.

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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:20:38 -0700

Make Peace with Your Mind

For the spiritual power of peace to touch every person on this earth, it must radiate out from a profound peace within our own mind: across political and religious barriers, and across the barriers of ego and self-righteousness. To this end, we should seek an inner peace so pure and stable that we cannot be moved to anger by violence or to selfish attachment and fear by those who view or confront us with contempt and hatred. We can achieve such stability only by purifying the mind’s poisons—ignorance, anger, attachment, jealousy, and pride; then we can clearly see that war and suffering are but their outer reflections. The essential difference between true peacemakers and those who wage war of any sort is the presence of extraordinary patience and discipline in the minds of the peacemakers as they work with these pervasive poisons. If we truly understand this, we will never allow ourselves to be defeated from within or without.

–Lama Shenpen Drolma, from Change of Heart: The Bodhisattva Peace Training of Chagdud Tulku (Padma)

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Wed, 27 May 2009 07:05:04 -0700

Meditation cuts through all the illusion, all the projection, all the confusion we have about others and mostly about ourselves. It is coming face-to-face with the mind and with what the mind is really about. Understanding leads to penetrating insight into the illusion we have created for ourselves. This leads to liberation from suffering and a coemergent manifestation of compassion and wisdom. But we do not see it as a goal. We let go of goals and we focus on the act of meditation.

-Rob Nairn, from What is Meditation?: Buddhism for Everyone (Shambhala Publications)

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Mon, 11 May 2009 21:39:51 -0700

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OK here's something I'll bet no one has considered....

Since things seem to be getting even more and more bizarre on a daily basis, with no end in sight...consider this: Maybe the Bush camp and the Obama camp are working together. Maybe they are from a group of renegade revolutionaries who have decided to foil the Fed and bring down our entire monetary system from the inside, so as to bring order out of the ensuing Chaos.

eh eh? Pretty clever eh??

Perhaps they plan to restore our Republic after wresting it from the claws of the global Corporatocracy. Maybe they are even trying to bring down the Entire Global Banking Cartel in the most ambitious power play ever. Stranger things have happened. Well maybe not, but I'm just sayin'...

If not that, then what the hell????... I'm pretty much stumped at this point. So I decided to think positive.

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Mon, 11 May 2009 11:33:08 -0700

From Lupercuss. Joy.

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Mon, 11 May 2009 09:20:15 -0700

Often we are taught that in order to become successful it is necessary to be persuasive. Leaders mesmerize us with their inspiring words. Celebrity talk shows feature glib and witty guests. We argue and debate instead of sharing thoughts. The problem, however, is that as soon as we fall in love with what we say and how we sound, we stop listening. We even forget the value of not speaking at all. Forbearance, and extreme forbearance, makes space to listen without judgment--without resorting to snap decisions about "right" and "wrong."

-Donald Altman, from Living Kindness (Inner Ocean)

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Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:27:10 -0700

The Power of One

One compassionate word, action, or thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring him joy. One word can give comfort and confidence, destroy doubt, help someone avoid a mistake, reconcile a conflict, or open the door to liberation. One action can save a person's life or help him take advantage of a rare opportunity. One thought can do the same, because thoughts always lead to words and actions. With compassion in our heart, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle.

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Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:42:51 -0700

I think it grew some just now.

Thanks Cherishme for the cool pic.
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Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:11:10 -0700

I have enjoyed reading through so many astounding blogs here on SU. Some of our members display the most profound capacity for expression. Like Mozart or Picasso. And we are trained to highly value this capacity.

But cheers to those of us with a lesser capacity. "Expression" does not equal "creativity." We are all creative, whether or not we are capable of expression in a manner that society is trained to value. And perhaps some of the universe's most profound creation lies unexpressed. But we are all connected in consciousness, so whether or not it is expressed, it makes its indelible impact on humanity. It must be so.

I have one son who plays piano, saxophone, and is an amazing writer. I have another son who can play with pebbles in the back yard for hours. Which of the two is more creative? The question is meaningless to me. Create with freedom everybody. Whether it makes it to the pages of SU or not.

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Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:27:55 -0700

Perhaps I am a collection of thoughts in a bucket. This bucket, with its thoughts (gathered from the cosmos from time to time), I call "me." Some thoughts I have kept, some I have thrown back. Each decision of what to keep and what to leave is what makes "my" bucket unique from the others. Each decision of what to keep and what to leave is based on the decisions that came before. And then at the end, when it is worn and broken, the bucket tips over and the collection of thoughts that was me, spills back out into the the ocean of consciousness.

Gosh..what freedom life would be, if I could stop gathering things in my bucket, and just let them flow through me. Then I would lose my identification with "ME" and life would just be pure experience, just pure flow. When I put something in my bucket, it seems like I stop the flow. Then I form an attachment to the contents of my bucket, and I must protect and defend them. Time to ditch the bucket I think. Hmmmmm. Just flowing thoughts. Less me (which is a static idea), more "life" (dynamic and flowing).

And when I set down my bucket, there goes my need for security, there goes my fear and my struggle. Now if I can just resist the impulse to keep collecting. Let them flow.