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conscious living & conscious dying
http://kissing.wordpress.com/
- Author: daishin
- Listed in: Development and Growth Death & Dying
- Tags: poetry travelling world affairs conscious living wisdom teachings psycho-spiritual development
- Added on: Dec 3rd, 2007
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
A place to rumi/nate on "100 ways to kiss the ground" that is, to wake up in every moment, to die before we die -- in short, to live here and now, be of service, do no harm, learn to love yourself as you would your neighbour (and vice versa). All this as 'everyday zen' which requires practice, may not keep icebergs from melting, but quite possible create a circle of sanity and compassion amidst all this chaos.
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This morning, on my way to Rounds (where the medical-psycho-social-spiritual team reviews each patient’s chart each morning), someone pointed to the lounge area and asked whether I knew Paul. Well, I knew of him—his wife has been with u...
this moment
Spent most of the morning cleaning the small pond that sits between the house and the ocean view. It had become muddy and filled with algae. Water plants needed trimming and the overhanging California lilac had grown too thick for the light to c...
what for?
Cpl. James Hayward Arnal was killed late Friday by a roadside bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan. He was a member of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. James Arnal was the 88th Canadian soldier to die in th...
step by step
The Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha). It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions;...
doing no harm
Non-violence is at the heart of Buddhist thinking and behaviour. The first of the five precepts that all Buddhists vow to follow is “Avoid harming any living thing.” Buddhism is essentially a peaceful tradition. Nothing in Buddhist script...
