Loving My ‘Enemy’

The word “enemy” has been surfacing a lot for me lately, especially in our political climate and upcoming election. Does the word serve us any good, or does it place walls between us and other people/concepts that we apply it to? Not sure, but Mel’s entry puts it into perspective.

Melting-Pot Dharma

It was some 20 years ago when I heard Jack Kornfield describe this practice, and it has stuck with me all this time. Every once in a while, he said, he spends a day imagining that everyone else on earth is a fully enlightened Buddha, and each has been sent here to teach him something. I’ve tried it, but never for a full day.

It’s not easy to accept that everyone has something to teach us, and that everyone deserves our gratitude for that. But it’s true. Some of the lessons may be negative, a in: I’ll never embarrass my child the way that parent is doing. But nevertheless it is a valuable teaching.

What brings that practice to mind is that the word “enemy” kept coming up yesterday. I don’t have any enemies, or if I do I am not aware of them. In order to be an enemy…

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Writers & Inception

Lately, my writing is getting me fired up. Like a worked up, lathered feeling – almost sexual?! – but in a mental / intellectual way. A spiritual way. Does that even make sense? I have been doing a lot of world-building in my head for my theoretical novel. An idea that I had in 2009 and …

Context

My spiritual and intellectual journey had been fairly touch and go up to this point. When it rains, it pours. As of the present moment (summer 2015) this is the longest most in-depth period that I've written, read and reflected about spirit and intellect. In the past I would go through phases like this and eventually …

THIS.

I feel like I'm wanting to tap into a giant reservoir but I'm unable to grasp it, to access it. I keep drilling down and finding traces but no source. But I can feel the source...why can't I SEE it?! Said most of all humans since the dawn of time. I read an article the …

Words Made Manifest

It feels good to get words out on a page. Cathartic; a release. A way to make sense of the swirling, thrashing thoughts in your head that come from everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. Words are differentiators. They define and describe. They cause and effect. They move mountains and hearts. They are …