by Infinite Smile | Oct 22, 2009 | Blog
Gotta’ love when the earthquake of Awakening rattles and rolls everything we’ve ever known to be true… Question(s): As I sit, all that comes within my attention, or where I choose to turn my attention, exists because I’ve turned my attention on...
by Infinite Smile | Oct 22, 2009 | Blog
The teachings surrounding wisdom have been popping up around Infinite Smile recently. So here’s a re-posting of part of the chapter on this subject from Awake in This Life: As the audience, or Witness, of the illusory and repetitious charade of ego on the Stage...
by Infinite Smile | Oct 13, 2009 | Blog
I got an email recently that was pretty cool. In it the anonymous writer rather pointedly suggested that I was wrong to suggest that Alan Chapman’s self-professed “full” enlightenment, documented over at his site, Open Enlightenment, was at best an...
by Infinite Smile | Aug 28, 2009 | Blog
Over at digitalZENDO, there is an great piece on discussing the elusive experience of insight that Zennists call kensho: Avoiding talking about Kensho, does not make use virtuous or spiritual. Maybe it’s the contrary, it perhaps avoiding a direct conversation...
by Infinite Smile | Aug 27, 2009 | Blog, Photos
Over at the elephant journal, Waylon Lewis shares some smile material with this one: This brilliant, almost-too-subtle (just a line at bottom) ad campaign was created by UNCLE Grey A/S Denmark. It vividly reminds us that in getting up off the couch, in working our...
by Infinite Smile | Aug 27, 2009 | Blog
And the tragedy continues for the elephants of Thailand: Once the revered symbol of Thai culture, the backbone of industry and the protector of the countrys sovereignty during war, elephants now wander the streets of Bangkok, reduced to providing rides for tourists...