Well, no Boston. My brother is acting up, cursing at me on the phone, interrupting conversations with my father, and hanging up. Then he puts the phone on voice mail. Why doesn't my father stop him? And he is so trembling in his help. We cannot depend on him at all, except to be erratic. Evidently I am an adult child of a dysfunctional family. Yuck ( Read more... )

I have now arrived at the highest truth. I am not a Buddhist either, because Buddhism is another ism, and isms are traps. I will not stop at anything; I will know the truth (evidentially or experimentally verifiable reality).

We need some relief here. So the Pentagon wanted to build a gay bomb,  which supposedly would cause enemy soldiers to lust ( Read more... )

Evolution: one of the two or three biggest debates I have ever entered.
After 16 years of hashing and re-hashing this, I have seen the truth :)
Seriously, while reading about speciation evidence, I suddenly realized a couple of things.
(1) Why isn't anyone arguing about the evolution of plants? Obviously, because we are not plants. The entire debate ( Read more... )

Manifest Buddha. Show, demonstrate, produce, bring to life, the Buddha-nature with every breath. This is what I will do. What is there more? Please comment. Gassho.

Of course rape is sexual, and it is also aggressive. Anyone who tries to separate aggression from sex is in the grip of an ideology. This points me to reality: sexuality is always aggressive.

This is to show that I'm ready to learn.
Found an essay about reclassifying rape as a "hate crime". The author repeatedly said that rape is not about sex, et c. Therefore I wrote her the following letter. She may not respond, but perhaps someone will be able to give me some evidence and/ or reasoning about this. Therefore I'm posting this.

Dear ( Read more... )

I have usually meditated indoors, but then I remebered that I have never been sleepy outdoors. This surprised me, but meditation must be ecotactile. Of course, everything is ecotactile, that's why we do not have a separate self, duh! But somehow it never occurred to me that meditation might depend on its environment.

So I practiced outdoors near a ( Read more... )

Well, the pressing hands method failed its acid test. I simply began to drift off and the hands became still. One of you kindly suggested that I become aware of any tiredness during the day. This is correct; I am and have been chronically tired for years. There's more to this, but for later.

There is a circular pattern here. Years ago, I began ( Read more... )

That's what I am going to call whatever method keeps me awake during meditation. Many of you have sent many suggestions, and I have tried many of them in the past. Please understand that I have a chronic sleep deprivation issue, which has challenged my meditation for years. There's a cool story behind that, but later ( Read more... )

This is the title of Thich Nhat Hanh's meditation manual. Another Thich, Quang Duc, showed us the power of mindfulness back in 1963. (FYO, he was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by US-backed Catholic Thieu govt ( Read more... )