Inspired by my many teachers… I came back to Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching about the five mindfulness training’s this week to help guide me in my upcoming travels when I experience some kind of challenge during my time away from the creature comforts of home. We have a tendency to … Read More
After almost two decades of teaching at Southern Maine Community College I finally decide to take advantage of their sabbatical program and apply for it…. not thinking I would actually get it… yet I did! Once again… be careful what you ask for in life… you may just get it. … Read More
In attempt to journal and document the next year in my life I need to do some back story to talk about how I got here and what I’m going through to make plans for my sabbatical. I’ve always wanted to spend some time in India and south western Asian … Read More
After we have an experience to an opening through God’s love in our human experience it is natural to contract into a protective way of being. In our individual private world we bring figures from our past, and it is because of this that our worlds of past/present/future differ. Our … Read More
One of the first things we need to understand about form and content is that they are both part of dualistic thinking of the human brain and do not exist in the oneness of spirit/love/god mindedness. While we are born into our small self, we appear to have a separate … Read More
Your heart is the most important aspect of your being…that may sound controversial…in this world of doing…of personal “accomplishment”…of conquering…of being a “mover and a shaker”… This world is a world of form…and of dualistic thinking, and between those two things we find we have lost our way. Still deep … Read More
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