Picture this: On a lovely late afternoon stroll, you are walking along on a hilly suburban sidewalk, already planning your evening at home. Absent-mindedly, you cross strips of grass and the concrete slabs of your neighbors’ driveways when suddenly … the brakes on a parked truck give up. Caught unawares, you are unable to...
As far as most of us are concerned, our soul is just there, hanging somewhere above our head, fuzzily defined, even in religious dogma.
We are as hypnotized by the Dalai Lama as if he were the only one who can remind us that an honest and ongoing acceptance of the karmic tests, as they present themselves in many of our days, is essential to a healthy spiritual, emotional and physical life. But how well does he embody...
Like a recurring itch that keeps annoying me, there something about the compassionate and bubbly spiritual figurehead of Tibetan Buddhism - the one that reminds so many of the kindly, cuddly and wise grandfather they had or wish they had had – that makes me want to scratch ... below the surface.
Edited to include survivors of the New Zealand earthquake:Today, I’m doing a quick edit to add that, sadly, I’m once again feeling quite unspiritual because I still don’t get why being alive for so many victims and survivors [this time it’s of the massive earthquake that, yesterday, crumpled the city of Christchurch, in neighboring...
I then pondered the impossibility for anyone to truly justify their existence. I mean, we can't get away with it simply by saying I need to exist because I'm a good person or Because it's my right or Because i was born or Because I'm a mother or Because the work I do is important...
So, here’s me thinking that, in regards to those of us who, like naughty children are *grounded* be it by snow, floods or storms ...
The litmus test of genuine spirituality is simply whether, in the moment that is under our feet, we are able to *actively* accept our stressors, our illnesses, our disappointments and our emotional pain with a heart that is truly open – a heart that dictates *acceptance* to the mind – or not.
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