Distractions
Yes, this is kinda sexist. But it makes my point SO well. Multitasking has become something of a source of pride in modern culture. If you’re working on six things at once, you are showing that you...
View Article“We Agnostics”? Not Anymore
Please keep reading, I didn’t just put this here just to piss you off. I promise. As an Atheist, I am a bit of an anomaly in the rooms of 12-step recovery. Normally in meetings, it is good etiquette...
View ArticleTwo Monks Walk Into A Flower Shop
So, I’ve been thinking about an old Buddha story for a while. I’m almost certain it’s a Buddha story. I could look it up in about 15 seconds and be sure, but I don’t think it’s really relevant. I’m...
View ArticleThere Are Ghosts In Your Eyeballs
People comment on stuff like this all the time, and there are about bounty hoobajoobillion stories and parables and sayings about it, so at first I hesitated to blog about it. But then I figured,...
View ArticleToo Hot To Handle
Too hot, too difficult, too overwhelming, too scary, too impossible, too much of a good thing. There are a lot of reasons that we can’t do things. There are even more reasons that we decide we can’t...
View ArticleAddicted To Attachment
I’ve just done a guest blog for a Buddhist blog entitled (the blog, not my post), “Sweep The Dust, Push The Dirt”. Please view it through the link below. I think you’ll like it. It deals with...
View ArticleThe Tao, Money, And Illusion
Source ‘Illusion’ is a word that gets knocked around quite a bit. It has a bad reputation; it’s a trickster, a bad egg. But really, it’s just another description for something humans experience and...
View ArticleOn Screwing Up
I don’t like screwing up. I was going to follow that sentence with a handy list of stuff I’ve screwed up or could screw up, but how do you pick and choose? I mean, if I include ‘making a typo’, then...
View ArticleGod, Karma, Punishment, And You
Let’s admit it: we like punishment. We like to think that the guy who cut us off in traffic came down with a bad case of four flat tires as soon as he got out of our sight. That the guy who stole our...
View ArticleThis Is A Time Of Upheaval
It’s a disaster. We hear this all the time. In politics, in the news, in television and movies. We hear people say it. It’s a disaster, it’s all screwed up, it’s all going straight to hell in a...
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