Category: Buddhism
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I haven’t posted anything here in a while. A lot has happened between my last post and now, and I’ll do my best to describe what I experienced. It may not look like it has much to do with recovery, but I believe it has everything to do with recovery. At least for me, I…
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I use the word chose deliberately because that’s what happened. I saw a headline that sent me down a rabbit hole. Clickbait works. As I kept on reading I could feel myself getting angrier and angrier. Before long at all I had started writing a post fueled completely by that anger and my sense of…
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Recently in Albuquerque, a city not far from where we live, a man reportedly pulled a gun on a Catholic priest after getting mad over the priest’s public support for religious freedom and his wife arguing with the priest. According to local news reports the disagreement centered on the priest’s support for the construction of…
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What’s your favorite ways to deal with stress? Would you be willing to share them? What about those times when you’re way more stressed out than you realize until your body starts letting you know with pain? I think that’s exactly what happened to me. I wrote recently about how the multifocal PVCs that first…
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I remember when I was in the middle of detox, there were times I was too sick to read. So, I’m gonna make some videos for people who are in that place. Hopefully, I’ll get better as I go along.
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I haven’t been writing as much lately obviously. Life has been really busy lately but really good and full too! We’ve been settling into our forever home, and moving doesn’t really end when the boxes are unpacked. There are gardens to tend, little projects to finish, things to clean, organize, repair, and improve on. Every…
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Here’s something I’ve considered writing about several times but haven’t actually done so until now. The reason I’ve wanted to write about it is because I really do believe it can help people, just like it’s helped me, a lot. The reason I’ve hesitated is because of its Zen origins. For whatever reason, some people…
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I keep learning since getting clean new ways to approach life and I’ve realized I’m not just learning new things… I’m also un-learning old ones. Modern society tries to tell us that softness is weakness and hardness is strength. But I think that’s backward. Softness is the way of life. Green grass is soft, water…
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I haven’t written anything in a while. I’ve been busy because I have a new grandson! I think I really needed the break from writing. I feel refreshed now and maybe even having a slightly different perspective than before. The time away from writing made me realize how easy it is to fall in to…
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I am torn this way and that. My mind aching from the poisons of worry and fear. My body weak and stiff from tension. This foolish “I” can do nothing to rescue myself. Frequently lost in the delusion of permanence I grasp at this and that, Not understanding the illusory nature of all things. How grateful I am for Boundless…