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…
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Honoris Causa- The Dalai Lama out of Touch [part 1/2]
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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.
feeling lucky = relief or gratitude?
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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 New Zealand,] is a simple matter of ‘luck’ or ‘miracle’ – subtext: “i’ve got no f -ing clue why I was spared.’
Destiny/Fate_What Stands Between us & Death [part 1/3]
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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 … can we?
Natural Disaster_Floods and Warm hearts
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At the moment, Nature is still not that interested in destroying lives, only livelihood, savings, personal plans – horded billions of taxpayers’ money = the Economy.
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part5/5]
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I never intended for this series to grow beyond the original 3 blogs, which is why the first one was labelled part1/3, but whenever I hear of yet another blatant example of our ‘herd blindness’, my keyboard jumps up and down, demanding words on paper – and who am I to refuse, huh?
Natural Disasters_And Then WHAT? [part 4/5]
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Scholarly theories and precautionary principles get bandied around. They generate nods and accolades from peers as well as a few variations on, ‘Uh, yeah … OK,’ from us laypersons but they can never, never define the original catalyst that created the very first instance of their very first observable piece of data – the X factor that caused the first domino to wobble before falling – the data from which scientists create theories after observation and calculations of their evidence, their empirical evidence.
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part 3/4]
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Though clearly our culture is well past the point of no return, as individuals, we need to stop pointing the finger as readily as the child who, caught red-handed, blurts in a blatant attempt to shift blame, “It wasn’t me. I had nothing to do with it.”
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part2/5]
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It is far easier to pop pills than trying to earnestly understand what lurks at the low end of our ego. It is also much easier than to begin sorting out from within the fears and insecurities that lead us by the nose moment by moment, one impulse, one knee-jerk at a time.
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part 1/5]
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At the moment, Nature is not that interested in destroying lives, only livelihood – and horded billions of taxpayers’ money.
At the moment, Nature seems very interesting in cleansing the planet.