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Why Buddhist Christianity?
It’s a fair enough question: Why Buddhist Christianity? The answer is that, for many of us, Christianity just isn’t Christianity any more. Fundamentalism has perverted Christianity into some kind of...
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Daily Teaching for Saturday, March 3rd
Most of us spend far too much time thinking about God, and that is a terrible thing. I say that because thinking removes us from the world of experiencing. Thinking about God is a very safe thing to...
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Daily Teaching for Sunday, March 11th
Feeling unsettled? Turn off the television, the radio, the computer, the phone, and everything else that makes noise, go to your room and sit for twenty minutes. Don’t read, don’t write, don’t do...
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Slimming Down Jesus
Most people put Jesus on a pretty strict diet, the kind of diet that makes the meals on The Biggest Loser look like an all you can eat buffet. It’s a mostly unconscious process, and pretty...
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Thomas Merton Quote
If the salvation of society depends, in the long run, on the moral and spiritual health of individuals, the subject of contemplation becomes a vastly important one, since contemplation is one of the...
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The Dhamma Brothers
I watched a movie yesterday called The Dhamma Brothers. It’s available for free viewing on the Tricycle.com website for people who are members. Tricycle is a Buddhist Journal to which I subscribe. For...
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Thinning the Herd
Technology is wonderful – when it works. When it doesn’t, or when it seems to take on a mind of its own, it can be very frustrating. Somehow, between ongoing problems with cell phones and changes from...
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Daily Teaching for Monday, June 25th
The radio has been out in my car for a while. Though I certainly miss it, and the podcasts I used to listen to while driving along, I have to admit that I am much more focused on my driving and the...
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Daily Teaching for Friday, June 29th
One of the biggest benefits of an ongoing meditation practice is that I just don’t over-react nearly as much as I used to. Mind you, I’m not perfect and I still have my moments, but I have benefited...
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Daily Teaching for Saturday, March 9th
One of the primary goals of spirituality is the perception of reality precisely as it is. Often times we unconsciously layer “stories” on top of our experiences that color how we understand that...
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Daily Teaching for Sunday, August 18th
Unless they do something like kick us in the shins, nobody can make us feel anything. We choose our emotional reactions, though it often happens so fast we don’t realize we are making a choice....
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Self-Assessment
We have probably all had the experience at a place of employment – or when handing in a test at school, for that matter – wherein we knew an evaluation was coming and either had no idea of how we were...
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The Heart of Spirituality
Filed under: contemplation, Daily Teaching, meditation Tagged: contemplation, God, meditation, silence, spirituality
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Happy New Year 2015!
Well, how did it go? Have you found your shoes yet, and did they look like the ones on the right of this post? I hope not. Maybe that’s why there are a number of college football games played on New...
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Flying off the handle?
We have all done it, at least once in a while. Things build up, we get irritable, someone says something (quite often it’s rather innocuous) and BOOM, we let fly. Sometimes, if we are skilled or luck,...
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