Often, the calmest wind ruffles the most feathers.
Monthly Archives: December 2013
New Year
Today marks the end of the Julian year and the beginning of the next. Celebrations will occur throughout most of the Western world. In some places such as Europe, the New Year has already rolled in. The Eastern Lunar New…
Tagged with: Catholic Church, community, Green Horse, growth, His Holiness, Holy See, journey, Liberation Theology, life, luck, New Year, pathway, Pope, Wood Horse, Year of the Horse
Posted in Informaitional, Musings
Posted in Informaitional, Musings
Brother Bear Koan 3
Wisdom comes from the melding in harmony of the emotional heart and the logical mind.
Free Speech
We in the United States are blessed with the ability to say and do just about anything we want. Whether it is outrageous claims regarding political views, bad haircuts, or simply opinions regarding sports teams, anything and everything is pretty…
Tagged with: 1st Amendment, Civil Rights Movement, free speech, growth, harmony, hate, John Mils, journay, love, ostracization, path, peace, political correctness, tolerance, United States, veiled ignorance
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Be Not
Hidden cloudy sun, Forest trees create shadows. Mochi sweet on tongue.
Marriage Equality New Mexico
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think…
Tagged with: community, emotions, harmony, love, marriage, marriage equality, New Mexico, NM, pathway, peace, same gender marriage, same sex marriage, solace, strength
Posted in Soical Policy
Posted in Soical Policy
Rila, Bulgaria
The Rila area of Bulgaria hold numerous areas that hold an appeal to those looking for walking meditation, quiet solitude or a place of hermitage. Rila, thought to be of Thracian origin, means “well-watered mountain” and its connection to the…
Tagged with: Bulgaria, Dzherman River, Eastern Orthodox, hermatige, journey, monestery, mountain, nature, quiet solitude, reflection, Rila, Rila Monastery, Saint Ivan, Saint Ivan of Rila, self, Seven Rila Lakes, silence, St. Ivan, Thracian, walking meditation, water
Posted in Locations
Posted in Locations
Brother Bear Koan 2
It is simple to stand confident in fair weather.
Tagged with: bend like a reed, Brother Bear, confidence, harmony, Koan, self, strength
Posted in Koans
Posted in Koans
Master Raven Koan 2-The Teacher’s Jar
A teacher stood before his students at the end of the year. As class began, the teacher filler a glass jar with large rocks from the ground around him. Before long the jar was filled to the top. The teacher…
Tagged with: glass jar, individual, journey, joy, large things, life, overwhelmed, parable, pathway, pebbles, Priorities and a Jar, rocks, sand, self, small things, stones in your life, story, symbology, teacher, The teacher, time management
Posted in Koans
Posted in Koans
Xiong Nai Xin Retreat 