A Mindful Life

Construction codes were egregiously overlooked when this site was raised. “Images” by Kari Brindley ©2003 / ephotograph

In my wanderings I came across a page describing general Buddhist etiquette. Interesting.

I’ve made some adjustments to this blog. If you view it on a PC in 800 x 600 resolution, you should now be able to view the right sidebar next to the blog content. I also grew a bit exasperated with my categories. First I installed code to create pull down menus (so the list [...]

All the books tell you that if the grizzly comes for you, on no account should you run. This is the sort of advice you get from someone who is sitting at a keyboard when he gives it. Take it from me, if you are in an open space with no weapons and a grizzly [...]

Halfway Down Halfway down the stairs is a stair where i sit. there isn’t any other stair quite like it. i’m not at the bottom, i’m not at the top; so this is the stair where I always stop. Halfway up the stairs Isn’t up And it isn’t down. It isn’t in the nursery, It [...]

You’ve been here before: It’s the bazaar next door to the sanctuary, the place all the Unitarian Universalists go after a Sunday morning service to grab a cup of fairly-traded coffee, find a friend, navigate around the card tables strewn with social-action petitions, groan about (or praise!) the choir, amend the sermon, buy a book, [...]

Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total [...]

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. –Doug Larson

Euan mentioned a conversation he had with another blogger who was deeply disturbed by the images of Nick Berg’s execution. He then made an observation: I know I have written about this before but yet again I was struck that, bizarrely, I have at least as much compassion for the perpetrators of such acts as [...]

The conception that the physical body is made of sin and that this is the lowest aspect of being will very often prove to be a mistake, for it is through this physical body that the highest and the greatest purpose of life is to be achieved. –Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan From: A Meditation Theme [...]