SQUIRREL

Mr. Squirrel gathers and prepares for long winter nights. As a friendly, quick and industrious worker, he knows the…

Antarctica - Unusual Cosmic Ray energy pattern discovered in ice in Antarctica

I posted a picture recently in my photo space of cosmic rays hitting earth. At the time, however, I did not know that there was literal physical proof of such phenomena. How exciting that not only is there proof, it is also a physical phenomena studied on-goingly by scientists today. An interesting…

When thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?... Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate. When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you…

Monastery Life

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws by hand.

He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it…

"Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. It must begin with your own
thoughts, and then extend outward."
W. Lesson 34

In the Presence of Difficulty - Compassion

Compassion is the ability to see the deep connectedness between…

Open Your Mind

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing sounds easy until you think about how much conditioning has taken place in your life, and how many of your current thoughts were influenced by geography, the religious beliefs of your ancestors, the color of your skin, the shape of your eyes, the political…

Releasing the Reigns - Changing Others

Our perception of humanity as a whole is, to a large extent,…

The law of the wild says kill only when you are hungry!!!

Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya 's Masai Mara in Octoberr, said he was astounded by what he saw:



"These three brothers (cheetahs) have been living together…

"You can speak from the spirit or from the ego, as you choose. If you speak

from spirit you have chosen to "Be still and know that I am God". These

words are inspired because they reflect knowledge. If you speak from the ego

you are disclaiming knowledge instead of…

Consciously Reconnecting - Opening a Closed Connection

God be in my head
And in my understanding;
God be in mine eyes
And in my looking;
God be in my mouth
And in my speaking;
God be in my heart

And in my thinking;
God be at my end
And at my departing.
Sarum Primer

Shamatha-Vipashyana: It's Our Original Nature

By Gaylon Ferguson

In the tradition of the buddhadharma that traveled from ancient India to Tibet (and, more recently, to various points west), the two main kinds of meditation practiced are shamatha (peaceful or calm abiding) and vipashyana (insight). These are two different but complementary types of training and a doctrinal description of what is completely natural to us: our innate…

Maintaining the Flow - A Clear Current

The essence of…

"Consciousness, the level of perception, was the first split introduced into

the mind after the separation, making the mind a perceiver rather than a

creator. Consciousness is correctly identified as the domain of the ego. The

ego is a wrong-minded attempt to perceive yourself as you wish to be, rather

than as you are. Yet you can know yourself only as you are, because that is

all you can be sure of. Everything else is open to…