Today I lazily rose after last night's firework's spectacular and set about preparing for a long puja to Green Tara; thinking to myself that I need to get off to a good start with my practice in the hopes that it continues thorughout the year.

The devotional text is relatively short but with all the cleaning and setting up of the space, meditation ( Read more... )

Any suggestions for meditation or magic to transform angry feelings into something more useful? I've been feeling angry at a lot lately, and I want to transform that energy into something that's not stomping around throwing a tantrum.

1. View: By omnipervasiveness, let unconditional self-awareness go into the self-liberated vision not grasped by mind; this way is good ( Read more... )

Sometime last night my LJ was hacked and, as a result, until I got it straightened out this afternoon many of you were subjected to torrents of nude pics. I'm now tracking down the hacker's posts as best I can and deleting them when I find them. If the hacker struck here, I am sorry. If not... then I am grateful.

This episode puts me in mind of ( Read more... )

Where do bad folks go when they die?

Hey kids, look what I stumbled into today - can you get any more on-topic? :)
http://www.celticbuddhism.org

Celtic Buddhism Inspired by Chögyam Trungpa RinpocheChögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was Venerable Seonaidh [John] Perks' root teacher. Seonaidh lived with him for seven years as his ( Read more... )

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I like to meditate on being parts of nature ( Read more... )

I'm reading Great Eastern Sun by Chogyam Trungpa. In chapter 3, Overcoming Physical Materialism, he writes: "In medieval times,people suffered less from physical materialism, but the line between comfort and discomfort was marginal. There was not very much comfort and not very much discomfort. People were hardened and vague from that experience ( Read more... )