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The Dynamic Life of Actual Living Is Always Welcoming You Back. 2007-08-27 10:56:00 Well, I'm finally back on my own two feet and walking around much more, with much less of a limb. My ankle's five week journey to recovery has finally turned the corner. I've been able to take my bike out for a ride and walk down by the ocean once again. It's beautiful to be back in the arms of the Earth! The world inside our walls is made almost exclusively by thought. Our apartments and homes, ...

Religion: A Thing Of The Past. 2007-08-26 10:55:00 This post is not meant to offend anyone who holds a religious viewpoint, only to highlight the relationship religion has with the past. Religion is the past, isn't it? I mean, it obviously molds the present and hopes to dictate the future, but its very existence is in the past. In other words one's religious perspective is completely derived from the past, without the past, without the traditions ...

Observation Implies No Identity. 2007-08-25 03:12:00 I have been increasingly aware, as of late, of the movement of life as a total living process. By that I mean, awareness seems to have no fixed, separate identity as 'somebody' who is aware of other things separate from itself. There is only one fluid movement. I promise, I am not attempting to describe some extraordinary state, quite the contrary, it feels far more natural than pretending to be ...

When Having No Relationship Is The Greatest One Of All. 2007-08-24 00:30:00 This post is a direct response to yesterday's post, When 'Meeting Life Becomes 'Hiding' Behind Life. Through yesterday's post and responses it suddenly occurred to me how the mind may be completely independent, alone, and totally empty of content. What am I talking about, you might be musing? Most of us, most of the time, seem to experience ourselves, and therefore our mind, as being in ...

When 'Meeting' Life Becomes 'Hiding' Behind Life. 2007-08-23 09:55:00 I went in to Hudson Medical Center in Los Angeles yesterday to have x-rays taken of my ankle. You'll be happy to know there is no break or fracture to be found. I went to Hudson because I do not have any health insurance and they, along with several other 'free' clinics in L.A, will see you regardless of your status or income. However, you wait! I was a fortunate one, I'll write about that in ...

Wordless Wednesday, Part 3 2007-08-22 02:01:00 Photo by David Vernon. There is no capturing the essence of this solitary tree. Whenever you think you have it, it's gone. It's no different than yourself. "So the mind, which is of time, cannot receive the timeless. So the mind must be completely still, empty, without any movement in any direction. And that can only take place with a mind that is not occupied--not occupied with the 'more,' ...

The Whole World is Hollywood, and Everyone Loves Drama!!! 2007-08-21 21:52:00 "So, what script are you pitching?" No reply. "What script are you acting from?," you ask me. "I guess you're intensely involved in your character right now, and you've probably forgotten your on stage only pretending to be who you say you are. Why not follow me off-stage and tell me privately," you whisper to me in my ear. Confused I walk off stage with you and stand behind the side curtain. " ... Hollywood

Blazing Your Own Path Means There Is No Path! 2007-08-21 01:36:00 Dear friends. This evening it dawned on me to write about being completely your own, being alone. In order to be alone one must see through conformity, imitation, and the following of an other. Why is it that we find it so difficult to be alone? Why do we long for company, validation? To follow, imitate, conform, whatever name you call it, implies reaching a goal, doesn't it? It implies a result ...

Knowledge: Where Observation Goes To Die. 2007-08-20 11:01:00 I hope you find this post as interesting as I do and please forgive the length. Now, before we begin, I must point out that knowledge is not only necessary, but has been an incredible service to humanity. I mean, it's pretty safe to say humanity would not be humanity as we know it without this vast store room of knowledge called memory. And not only memory, but knowledge accumulated over time, ...

Relationship Reveals Who You Believe Yourself To Be. 2007-08-19 12:03:00 This post is being written partly in response to the 'boot camp' I am participating in, which is organized by my friend over at Journey with Water Learner. This is the same friend and website that just awarded the Compassionate Council blogsite with the 'Inspirational Blogger Award'. Thank you Water Learner. The rules of the camp are simple, no lying, no flowery speech, no harsh speech for a ...

The War on Terror Has It Completely Wrong!!!! 2007-08-18 10:35:00 Good day my friends. I'd like to briefly speak about this despicable virus on the planet today called the 'War on Terror.' If this isn't a sign of humanity's unspeakable ignorance I'm not sure what is. The 'War on Terror' has cultivated its own culture, worldwide. That culture is based in fear and blossoms into full blown hatred, resentment, racism, and near total deceit. It creates an enemy ...

Human Beings Are Fundamentally The Same (period) 2007-08-17 19:43:00 I have felt another condition break in my mind today. It was one that was heavily fear based, having to do with what others think of me, what others would do to me if I were to be myself. Today, I will inform you, my friends, that I am ruthless in my love of life! Absolutely ruthless, and it was terrifying before now. And yet, I never realized until the condition was gone that the terror had ...

One Mind Friday: Being Creative 2007-08-17 02:31:00 One Mind Friday is a blog meme created so that we can all get to know bloggers better. Every Friday, starting August 24th, bloggers write on the same topic, but from their own particular perspectives. They write their perspectives on their own blogsite and then the fun begins, because we all, in turn, visit each others sites! The topic will be displayed on my site, here, on the Thursday night ...

Playing A Board Game With Fake Money Can Be Quite Revealing. 2007-08-16 10:06:00 Wow, I had no idea when my roommate asked me to play a board game called Cash Flow that I'd be in for such a humbly and transformative experience. I've always known I've had issues surrounding money. My friend Simone and I did a radio program just a few weeks ago around the meaning of money which brought up several key, long held beliefs and issues for me, but this board game took it to another ...

Wordless Wednesday, Part 2 2007-08-15 15:33:00 Photo by David Vernon. Standing still, in and out of time, immovably so. Love this tree, in all it's glory, through every changing season, nothing can touch it's majesty and grace! "Solitude is an inward state of mind, which is not dependent on any stimulus or any knowledge and is not the result of any experience or conclusion. Most of us, inwardly, are never alone. There is a difference ...