Patience | Patience
Jan.10.2010
Isn't there something attractive about a clean slate? I think it's one of the reasons people make New Year's resolutions year after year when most of the time they forget about them by February first. We love a clean slate. We love the idea that we can wipe the past clean and start over. I watched...
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Jan.07.2010
1.Gautama eventually awakened from his extreme zazen.But the bodhi tree he'd sat under still hasn’t.2.Respect all nature like yourself.You are a part of it.3.What seems inanimate isn’t.It’s just way too deep inside to show itself yet.But it will.4.Patience, lifeforms, patienceas we wait even on...
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Dec.13.2009
1. Turn your pet ideas upside down. Call on a couple of creative friends. They’ll care and level with you, help you retain the best of you.
2. One pet idea might be, as it is for many, that charisma is the answer. Not! Own your true convictions. That carries its own charisma.
3. Laugh as you lean....
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Dec.09.2009
Writing On the Same Page
Have you noticed the times that we’re on the same page writing together? I have. Sometimes it takes me all day to write a blog, and half of it is in the editing. Then shortly after I post it, (and edit again) I begin to search my Overheard feed for...
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Oct.24.2009
My feelings about being ill come from my mother. She's just not having any of it. After major surgery once and after her doctor didn't release her at exactly 11 am the following day, she made me take out her IV (gross) and she went AWOL from the hospital. By the time we got home, the hospital...
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Oct.23.2009
October 23
WAITING FOR THE RECOVERY OF OTHERS
I sit on my hands and wait for these bright pennies to earn the lessons of time. I dance my little dance and move on, dropping the pretense of patience. I search other forests, fields, and meetings and encounter many fine plums, though none the...
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Oct.22.2009
It would seem that the majority of our society has forgotten how to be patient. A little patience can go a very long way. Unfortunately we continue to evolve into a high-blood-pressure-pill-needing species that knows only one language. Hurry up!
Why? Why "hurry up?" What are we...
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Sep.24.2009
Part of my reasons for embarking upon the Amida Buddhist Psychology training is that I'd like to earn my 'psychotherapist' badge.
I'm already accredited as a counsellor, and have a private practice that meets my financial needs, and I love my work. I don't want different clients or to do different...
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Aug.09.2009
It's so close I can see the press release: D. K. Christi's second novel, Ghost Orchid, a tale of love, lies and redemption in the Everglades is released today.......
That's the problem - so close. The final edit and the final proof are complete. I haven't seen the cover yet. I did see the...
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Aug.03.2009
This article in today’s NYT is all about art, but it made me think all about writing. It’s about, essentially, the way we tend to collect digital photos as evidence of places we’ve seen, without really absorbing the experience of being there. Whereas in the eighteenth century, “Travelers who took...
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