by Infinite Smile | Jan 17, 2011 | Blog
Such beauty. Happy birthday, Martin. Happy birthday. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand...
by Infinite Smile | Jan 17, 2011 | Blog
This entry was previously posted in 2008 and is an excerpt from the book, Awake in This Life: a guide for those climbing the Mountain of Spirit. __ As we come off the Mountain of Spirit, we recognize how little about us needs to be defended. This is because we have...
by Infinite Smile | Jan 16, 2011 | Blog
Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within ourself that we have built against it. ~ Rumi
by Infinite Smile | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields points out that historian Allen Ginsberg, of Maine, says that the tragic events in Arizona suggest something remarkable about America: This week we saw a white, Catholic, Republican, Federal Judge murdered on his way to greet a...
by Infinite Smile | Jan 14, 2011 | Blog
As Ive led groups of meditators over the years, Ive gotten used to hearing that people are looking for something in their lives that is spiritual but not religious. This is understandable since so many feel like theyve evolved past the traditions they grew up...
by Infinite Smile | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog
I recently gave a Dharma talk that seemed to just bomb. Im used to this, though. My A-game isnt always there now that little kids have been brought into my world. Sleep is a luxury and meditation can easily get interrupted. Dirty diapers, in my current world, trump...
