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Mindfulness and dog pee

On February 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I continue to notice little changes that I attribute to my meditation practice. Good ones. My current practice revolves around mindfulness, the attempt to just be aware of and notice thoughts as they happen. When you get into semantics, this is usually considered at least a notch or two down from concentration, where you intend [...]

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I got blessed by a bunch of Tibetan monks yesterday. It was so cool.

On August 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A friend of ours who has just about completed a house she’s building invited my little family over to be part of the blessing ceremony she had arranged. She’s a Buddhist, I can’t remember if she started with the Zen tradition and moved toward Tibetan or the other way around. Anyway, there are some visiting [...]

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Zen, work and midlife

On March 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I’ve always been into “Asian stuff,” studied martial arts, have more Chinese movies on DVD than an average Blockbuster, whatever. I’ve always known about Buddhism – academically – but for whatever reasons these things happen, I’ve started to actually practice over the last months, and it’s been very good for me. It’s not as though [...]

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Almost zen, or maybe some kind of vu

On February 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment

So, more snow over the last couple days. Santa Fe is covered by light, powdery snow and I’m out walking the dogs at 8:30 or so this evening. With the full moon, it’s wild, the lights from the city, due West and maybe 9, 10 miles away, are strange under the low clouds because the ground [...]

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