My teacher -- the abbot of a Zen monastery in Japan -- once told me that for the first 17 years of his practice, his legs hurt ... a lot. This is not to indicate that if-you-ain't-hurting-you-ain't-d…

we have a Radio-controlled clock in the kitchen.

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@DharmaCloud Can I ever relate. When my son was about 6, he cleared his whole classroom throwing chairs around the room. Huge impulse control problems. I wasn't sure how on earth he'd make it through…

I have 3 boys: 17, (almost) 12 and 5.

10:16 PM....Time is our ego's carving up imaginary turf from the chaos...10:17 PM

The mystics of religion have cushions and are if of sufficient realisation 'empty of the presence'.

I'm completely a Buddhist at this point. I still have ties to my "old" religion due to family, weddings, funerals, that kind of stuff. I was born and raised Lutheran. When I was around 20 I…

I believe it is the daughter who was recently diagnosed. They have 2 children, the other is maybe 18 months. But I don't know that a kid that age has a good enough concept of cause and effect, and es…

If you drink the 8 ounce small can, they don't have that much caffeine, but the large cans can have up to 200, and the 5 hour energy bottles have 200 (for each tiny bottle). The content varies A LOT …