Nothing Left to Forgive – COVID

Jesus came to teach many things, but forgiveness is chief among them.

And yet with compassion there is nothing left to forgive.

Forgiveness is only needed when there is something held against another, some kind of blame.

When you see deeply into another, that judgment falls away and there is nothing left […]

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From my journal:

Dear Holy Spirit:

I wrote to Barbara Brodsky confessing that I was not feeling drawn to the Deep Spring Center for Meditation fall program and expressing some confusion and concern. Aaron incorporated to clarify, and I listened to the audio last evening. This morning, I read the transcript Barbara sent to […]

A New Hairdo for Zeus

Will Rogers says if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. That is very valuable to remember!

The twinges in my low back started on Sunday, in anticipation of going to Joel’s overnight to take Zeus, Joel’s male cat, to the vet for de-matting of his fur (under sedation). Zeus with his severely […]

Disappearance of Dogma

If the definition of “dogma” is a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true then I wonder what we call the state of not seeing anything as incontrovertibly true? Perhaps that is the disappearance of dogma….

I have been listening to Kelvin Chin, who was a test subject in […]

The True Meaning of Home

The other evening we were talking about our favorite childhood book/s. Mine was The Boxcar Children. It is a story about four orphaned siblings who must find a way to fend for themselves or risk being separated.The children have a grandfather they have never met, but they are afraid he is mean because he did […]

August 12, 1962

The dharma talk was direct. You don’t have to be a Buddhist to practice the precepts. The precepts are practical. I vow to harm none. I vow not to take what is not freely given. I vow not to misuse sexuality. I vow to refrain from false speech. I vow to refrain from intoxicants that […]

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