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Taking Refuge and What it Means to Me
Om Mani Padme Hum - Buddhist Mantra Today is the day. This afternoon I join into a community of like-minded souls that have adopted a Tibetan Buddhist (mahayana) view of the world. This act of taking...
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A Life of Meaning in Spite of Denial
Sitting on the fence I am back with a photo of a little, common bird that more often than not gets overlooked. There is a tendency to focus on colour, on what is striking and different when taking...
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Dreams and Consciousness
Heritage Park - sod shanty I took this photo in Calgary, not because of any historical significance though there is a lot of historical significance for the Canadian prairies, but because it made me...
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Thinking and Dreaming and Consciousness
Peering out from the darkness through a filter When I fall asleep, darkness is welcome rather than being something fearful. It is as though the night creates a nest of safety, a cocoon of protection....
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Fantasy, Active Imagination and the Emergence of Truth
Nodules in the sand and sea I realise that this is an atypical image when it comes to talking about dreams and reality, but then again dreams and reality are more atypical than not. Lately I have been...
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Dreams – The Story Behind the Story
Open to the light This little guy sat still long enough for me to go and get my camera and get this photo taken. To tell the truth, when I got back outside his wings were folded and I had to wait a...
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Lacking a Theory of Psyche
Snow to say good morning and welcome to winter – October 2012 Yesterday, I woke up to snow falling while in Lloydminster, Alberta visiting at my son’s home. After packing up after a week of visiting,...
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Do We Have The Will?
I have to admit that I am sad, heartbroken, angry and more – all at the same time. Again there has been murder with guns in another school in America, the land of guns, guns, guns. I have to admit that...
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Tibetan Buddhism – Part 2
Thinley Rinpoche, Rigdzin Khandro & Sangha I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew in taking on this project. In all honesty, I seriously question whether anything I could say would have...
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Mondays, Men and the Masculine – Part 3
I have written earlier that patriarchy is destructive of both men and women. It is important to remember this. It is also important to understand that in spite of many modern men becoming sensitive and...
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A Journey Into Maturity
“Maturity implies not so much avoiding being abandoned but in abandoning ourselves with few illusions – If we succeed in bearing the anxiety of solitude, new horizons will open to us and we will learn...
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