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This is not new, but it was passed on again in email today and I found myself every bit as touched -- the first person tale of a man sent to infuse a Brazilian tribe with Christianity only to find hi… (View Post)
My take is that if meditation's role is simply to feel better or feel worse, we could all just take a pill and have done with it. But if subtracting the bad stuff and adding the good stuff hasn't wor… (View Post)
Wouldn't it be nice to choose the perfect teacher or the perfect sangha -- to check it out and uncover the purity of a snowflake? No one likes to get stung, to find out they have put heart and soul i… (View Post)
@misecmisc1-- My Zen teacher, who was the abbot of a Japanese monastery in his later years, told me once that for the first 17 years of his zazen practice, his legs hurt like hell. This is not to sug… (View Post)
It's a sorry fact that the codification of spiritual endeavor (let's call it "religion") invariably makes religion complicit in atrocity and war. Trying to evade the lash of this observatio… (View Post)