As I said in my last post, my weekend was spent at the Providence Zen Center where I took my five precepts and formally became a member of the school. The Zen Center is a beautiful place and spending time there was a great experience. Sure, I’m sore from all the bowing and odd movements [...]
Posts Tagged ‘death’
Lunch With a Zen Master
Posted in Buddhism, tagged Buddhism, death, dinner, happiness, sangha, vegetarianism, Zen on April 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Losing One’s Self
Posted in Buddhism, tagged Buddhism, death, forgiveness, hope, love, peace, suffering, Zen on October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
How often have you been doing something and totally lost track of time? This usually happens to me when I’m doing something I really enjoy or when I’m working on a difficult problem. I totally space out and am unaware of the passage of time and do not perceive the world around me in the [...]
This Makes Me Sick
Posted in Savor, Weight Loss, tagged death, health, mindfulness, obesity, Savor, video, weight loss on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things that the book Savor touches on in a few places is the power of food advertisement and how it impacts our desire to eat things that aren’t good for us. One thing that I’ve done to try to make positive changes in my life is to seriously cut back on the amount [...]
RIP Robert Schimmel
Posted in Impermanence, tagged death, impermanence, suffering on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It was with great sadness today that I learned of the death of Robert Schimmel. He was an extremely funny man and a great inspiration to many people. I had the opportunity to see Robert perform back in 2009. It was a great show and I laughed through the entire thing. Whether talking about his [...]
More thoughts on impermanence
Posted in Buddhism, Impermanence, tagged Buddhism, death, hope, impermanence on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today after our sitting we had a Dharma talk. In the course of the talk, the idea of impermanence came up and it was mentioned that a Zen master (I don’t remember his name) says that there are two types of people in the world: those who die sooner and those who die later and [...]
