Police nab attention whenever One roams

     Saw a police force van and immediately slowed down while driving.

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Home Visit will Provide Internal Answers

        So many choices. So many books to read, words to digest. How do you know where to begin?

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Be Humble; Let Love Grow Inside Your Self

  • “Whenever I interact with someone,
    May I view myself as the lowest amongst all,
    And, from the very depths of my heart,
    Respectfully hold others as superior.”

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Snow & Zen Usher in Winter of 2009-2010

     A white cap of snow covers the head of the Buddha statue in the side yard of my Conshohocken home. Snow blankets his shoulders, his lap and that part of his robe that crosses his chest from the top left shoulder to the mid-section of the belly on the right.

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“Do Good, do No Harm, Still Your Mind”

Do Good

Do no Harm

Still Your Mind

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A Flower Blooms then Rests in the Buddha

Can I give a flower to a Buddhist?

To show the impermanence of beauty.

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My Xmas Wish List to the Dalai Llama

Revised Xmas list:

       Your Holiness:

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Think Buddha ever signed new members?

(Part IV, Continued from Life’s Journey)

QUES: What did Buddhist want on ordering a hot dog?     ANS:   One with everything.”

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Path to ‘Beloved’ Starts with Steps of Sufi

     I tasted the fruit of another’s belief and want to savor it for a long time to come.

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Life’s Journey leads me to a Tea Ceremony

(Part III, Continued from Meditation lets my energy flow from within)

     Never been to a “Tea Ceremony” before.

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Meditation lets my energy flow from within

Part II, Continued from On road to Peace, I found some “Bhuddies”

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On road to Peace, I found some “Bhuddies”

     For the first time in my life, I attended a Buddhist gathering knowing that I wanted to learn more about meditation and the teachings about compassion and loving kindness.

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Who’s Calling Me This Time? Oh, it’s YOU!

      Off to a Tibetan Buddhist Center in Philadelphia, PA. 

      Did not know there were so many. Buddhist Centers, that is. In the USA.

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Light shines from a trunk labeled ‘patience’

     I sometimes feel that Patience waits for no man.

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Why We Want No More War Anniversaries

War is good for no one.

No one is good for war.

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Falcon Reveals World of Mystery & Hope

     A falcon flew in to visit me. Four times, he soared from afar, twice through graceful flights of precision flying, and twice as an attack bird zeroing in on its prey.

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Listen: “Beloved” Calls to You and Me

 The writing below invokes something that pulls me to a Higher Self, perhaps the Highest. And I thirst for more.

The ‘Call and the Echo‘ Calls Out to Me and You

I am calling to you from afar:  

Calling to you since the very beginning of days. 

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Feeling God’s Presence In This Moment

     I never saw God in a Santa Claus.

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

     “I don’t like this love shit,” a woman I was about to meditate with whispered to me while in the circle of our six-person meditation “community.”

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Veterans find joy in their own backyards

     You can’t know how much pleasure there is in feeding a squirrel until you open yourself to the wonders of nature . . . and of course . . .  feed a squirrel . . . daily

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Serving others helps to serve you as well

The purpose of Life is to Know, Love, and Serve the Creator.

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