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The Paradox of Detachment

Detachment, often used in Buddhist teachings, implies being outside life, watching, disembodied. I believe this is a misunderstanding of the word’s deeper meaning.

From the teachings of the Alexander Technique, I’ve learned how to be in my body and mind and yet not let them run my life. In other words, I direct from the [...]

June 29th, 2007 | Category: Balanced Living, Buddhist Thinking, Deep Thoughts, Healing | 7 comments

Glittering Commentari 17, Jesse

It’s been awhile since I posted a Glittering Commentari, which are comment highlights from around the blogosphere. A recent commenter left this wonderful gem of spiritual advice on my post Spirituality without Religion. His or her name is Jesse Saunders, but that’s all I know, since there is no blog link. Enjoy…

Here’s my understanding, as [...]

June 24th, 2007 | Category: 90 Glittering Commentari, Social Culture, Spirituality | 4 comments

The Piano

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It translates all languages
Yet, mute, it waits until hands
unlock keys to meaning.
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June 19th, 2007 | Category: Culture, Poetry | 5 comments

Women Through the Ages

Women’s beauty has inspired artists since the dawn of culture. Many of you have probably seen this, but I couldn’t resist giving it some more air time. The creator ingeniously melded together 100s of paintings of women through 500 years of art, giving the effect of a (mostly) seamless morph of one woman’s face. Watch [...]

June 16th, 2007 | Category: Culture, Fun Stuff | 3 comments

Traffic Orgasm

I’ve been puttering along with this blog for months now. I don’t read many other blogs and don’t post very often here. Yesterday I fixed a bug in my comment box code which prevented entering text in IE. Later that day I got over a dozen comments. Elated, I commented back, eager to re-kindle blog [...]

June 14th, 2007 | Category: Ramblings | 6 comments
 
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