In all the different movies or shows I’ve watched, I’ve noticed a trend about the traits given to the leading actors and actresses. They don’t explain themselves. They wait for time to reveal the truth to all those who with suspicions or with unresolved doubts. It just seems so much cooler that way. For example, […]
After hours glued to the vivid video, there were many scenes from BBC’s Nature’s Most Amazing Events that made lasting impressions on me. One recurring set up was a lion on the prowl for its prey, commonly a young, helpless animal like a baby zebra, wilderbeast, impala, elephant, or buffalo. These infants were targeted, chased […]
Do unto others as you would like done unto you. This is so true, but sometimes we overlook the fact that both the negative and positive things that we do will come back to us. For example, a friend of mine was obsessed with a colleague’s constantly acting as the exception, standing out because of […]
I hate it when people say, “calm down” and “don’t worry.” Although the words are typically said with good intentions, I often feel like yelling, “If just saying, ‘calm down’ and ‘don’t worry’ would magically make it happen, I would have done it by now, thank you very much!” So how do you get rid […]
It’s just as bad, or even worse off than where you started: Going from a permanent, to impermanent, and back to permanent view. And it’s a common trap practitioners find themselves in. For example, this past Wednesday, I figured that since the A’s and Giants were in their playoff games, the restaurant would not be […]
After a breakup or falling out, there can be resentment, relief, regret. You deal with the pain, the sun rises and falls, and suddenly you find yourself missing the very person you couldn’t wait to be rid of (or the person who hurt you beyond your threshold of pain). As you take in new experiences […]
I was a few days into my first KPY retreat and I was still on the fence about whether or not this approach was for me. I had quietly listened as other folks shared stories from their lives and the realizations they had achieved when they examined their experiences from a correct viewpoint. I still […]
Reading the news today, I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes in Luang Por Thoon’s book, Natural Disasters. He wrote, “People in this age are commendable for their ability to create technological resources to enhance daily life. Knowledge is tucked away in innovative devices as a proxy for the human memory. It […]
At school, a little girl was headed down the stairs to the playground where there weren’t any other kids or adult supervision. This was, as the little girl had been told many times before, against the rules. An adult asked her, “Where are you going?” The little girl turned around briefly and kept on walking […]
At a recent house warming party, my friend got all heated up about her friend who didn’t know to wash chicken or vegetables before cooking them. She said, “everyone knows that you have to wash chicken and vegetables before cooking them!” and went on to tell us about how her friend was uneducated about the […]
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