Values don’t change in impermanent world

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Saigon Lady offers wisdom at check out

Saigon Lady taught me about Life and Buddhism tonight.    Continue reading

Dance floor good place to learn to play ball

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Hit upside the head provides a life lesson

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Hopping trains fools no one but myself

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Dream of Swinging on a Star Rings Out

Part II  Smith’s Playground inspires years later

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Dream of Smith’s Playground Inspires Me

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Unconditional love comforts a Buddha cat

     Sundance sneezed five times. Shouldn’t have surprised me. I felt” I was helping her as she lay across my legs, jettisoning hundreds of microscopic objects onto my leg and arm where her small furry head had just rested.  Continue reading

PTSD Creates New ‘Cause and Condition’

Causes and Conditions.

     That’s what Life is all about.

     Causes and Conditions.

     The sooner I realize this,

     the easier it will be to

     Reach Enlightenment.  Continue reading

Remember to enjoy the ride getting ‘there’

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Getting ‘Fired’ up for Singing Debut on TV

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Cock-sure Rooster leads in Race to Hades

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Time to get back into the swim of life now

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Mary’s Tears help battle Flashbacks of War

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Immigration stories hit closer to home

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Answers to questions about Vietnam War

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Old love songs morph into new spirituals

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50 chews per bite is goal, not meals’ end!

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Imperfect clergy always been kinda cool

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War guilt haunts veteran year after year

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Merging Two into One Okay, Michael J

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Hudson River magic calls me to Omega

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Be ‘Gentle,’ not Meek, to Inherit the Earth

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Sutta Nipata calls me to Omega Institute

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Jump at Chance to Finally Let Your Self Go

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Meditate and it will ‘erase’ all but the Now

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Always Look Within, To Now See Outside

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Loving, Longing, Yearning for My Beloved

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Need spiritual evolution now, not hereafter

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A body speaks its mind to free and heal you

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Take a risk; a new you may emerge from it

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Recalling a Few (25) of My Favorite Things

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Fowl locked up after spiritual book bash

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40 years later, I learn about ‘Nothing’

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Writing the old-fashioned way inspires me

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Now is when path and goal merge as one

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Acupuncture pitches ‘halvies’ to a PTSD Vet

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‘Yes’ you can ‘Whirl’ & ‘Close’ to a Jury

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Dolphins display love as human escorts

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Allison’s creating colors for life’s canvas

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Kim, you inspire me to lose meaty issues

You never know where your thoughts may take you when you blog. A reply to another’s post may become your “post of the day” if you’re not careful. Or, if another person writings inspire you to reveal your self . . .  Continue reading

Governor destroyed in the dark of a dream

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True Love can quench Ali son’s desire #1

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my love longs for ever more

Some words, phrases, even entire messages look different through the lens of time. Take this feeling I expressed to a friend half-way around the world about the “yearning” I felt on reading Sufi poems  for the first time. It moved me so much that I “penned” my own feelings of life-long “longing” to be with, what the Sufis call, “my Beloved” — the Higher Being that can take the shape of your Most Perfect Loved One, the Divine. Continue reading

Dance with love where ever you find Him

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New Worlds open at the turn of a page

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Cat’s meow: ‘thank you, I love you too!’

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Let the sun shine with all our appreciation

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Sun shines to make up for snowed in winter

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Time travel a stone’s throw (or hold) away

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When Spirit moves you, kneel & adore Him

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Grass always greener on non-paved side

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Sufi Love fondly remembered at a ‘Dhikr’

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Live life today in love for death tomorrow

Surprise! You’re HSP and never knew it

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A shower can bless me today, if I but let go

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Tibetan singing bowl aids a goddess & me

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Ring of truth played with bowls & forks

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Name-caller gets his butt kicked in the end

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Trappist monk helps veteran ‘awaken’ me

Con’td from Schuylkill Expressway miracle paves road to VA

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Flowers offer a heart-felt home-coming

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“Gotta give ’em a little ‘respect,’ that’s all”

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God’s Presence Realized at Breakfast Table

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Schuylkill X-way miracle paves road to VA

Cont’d from ‘Right’ path never obstructed long, Part II

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Dream helps guide me back to Paradise

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Jury Duty Requires Your ‘Just Reasoning’

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Modern Conclusion Bodhisattva Practices

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‘Barrister Bu’ — a ‘Buddha nature’ lawyer

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Love’s ‘First Kiss’ Lasts . . . For Ever More

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“Don’t like this love…(crap)” she told me!

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Veterans find joy in their own backyards

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Meditative dining offers food for thought

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