The Buddha — Siddhartha Gautama — called mindfulness “the path to enlightenment.” To spread the word of enlightenment, he asked that his senior monks (called bhikkhus) teach a doctrine called The Four Foundations of Mindfulness. When the bhikkhus asked the Buddha which four foundations they ...
A quick story from the Hippies (with apologies for bastardizing such an important tale): When Siddhartha Gautama (The guy who became Buddha) decided to stop messing around and get serious about the whole enlightenment gig, he plopped himself down under the Bodhi Tree (Ficus religiosa, for thos...
I did find a couple of possibilities that didn’t get distant traffic noise, but by then I was realizing that if I lived that far out, I was never going to see another human being in person. Except for twice-a-month visits to the city for groceries, and those would end up being ge...
Before our trip to Ethiopia, we were aware in a book sense that it was one of the earliest nations to adopt Christianity (in 330 A.D.). We did not imagine how pervasive and well-documented this historical vein would be, nor could we appreciate how much the country’s present would be...
Bad players complain that they didn’t want to be playing in the first place, but they didn’t choose not to play and then do something about it. Good players know when to stop playing the moment they no longer want the Reward.
I did find a couple of possibilities that didn’t get distant traffic noise, but by then I was realizing that if I lived that far out, I was never going to see another human being in person. Except for twice-a-month visits to the city for groceries, and those would end up being ...