Being back at work after 10 days is much like waking from a peaceful dream. Don't get me wrong, I was ready to come back, but things have a way of moving on without you when you aren't around to observe it. Seeing the change is both refreshing as well as frightening. It reminds me that other minds exist, and continue to further their aims despite ( Read more... )

At work, an email thread between coworkers sparked the following blurbs from my fingers. I thought I would share.

The world as we experience it is not how it is, it is just how we experience it. Our experience of it interferes with our ability to truly understand it. Subjective experience is not objective truth, and in fact, subjective experience ( Read more... )

For a moment the sun shone while the rain fell ( Read more... )

Revisiting the past, you may recall a debate I had with a person who claimed to be a lama. In this debate, he claimed that I was asserting emptiness, and that this act meant I was a nihilist, not a Buddhist. I maintained his arguments to support this were based upon sectarian understandings, and to counter this, he quoted from The Heart Sutra to " ( Read more... )

Learning something that you already know, how much fun is that? I am finding it difficult to differentiate it from sleeping ( Read more... )

I feel too alive, if that is possible. I don't really know for sure, as these are such alien feelings for me. I am not used to the exhilaration of having too many possibilities in front of me. Someone call an ambulance, I think I may have a coronary.

I just read here that John Thompson (Symantec CEO, or Norton Antivirus for all of you non-techy ( Read more... )

It's official, I am feeling perplexed, perturbed, and aghast. The timing is perfect, as simultaneously I feel pleased, relieved, and content. Never in my life have my body and mind held such antonymous emotions simultaneously. I have pondered so many mysteries in such a short time: why people still consider hamburger-helper to be food, how someone ( Read more... )

I love it when people leave comments. I learn so much from you, my dear friends. I am lucky to have surrounded myself with wonderful, intelligent, and insightful people. Once again, I was writing a response, and it became too long of a monologue to be contained comfortably within a comment ( Read more... )

My friend Avi wrote a wonderful blog about the state of our freedom. I was writing this response as a comment to his blog, but decided it was getting too long. Avi, I wrote it here instead.

While I agree that what is happening around us today is frightening, I do not agree that we are, or ever were for that matter, " the good guys. " The basic ( Read more... )

So here I am, in the land of the pretty people, drinking a beer and enjoying the scenery. How someone that looks like me can somehow be anonymous I have never understood. The people who work here know me, and even greeted me by name when I walked on the patio. Hell, my friend Amber is even buying a pitcher to share with me when she gets off work in ( Read more... )