In my last post, Impatience, I talked a little about meditation and patience. But I left out another aspect that interests me. In a perfect world I’d like to sit near a stream or listen to waves or wind or something natural like that- very New Agey, etc. But I don’t live in the woods […]
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Impatience
By martin edic on September 24, 2012 in Buddhism, Change, Health and Fitness, Personal Power, The Power Book
I’ve been trying to get more regular with a simple mindfulness meditation. Simply observing breaths and not trying too hard to clear the mind, etc. Just sitting and breathing. The advice I follow says you need to do about 20 minutes minimum because it takes ten minutes or so for your mind to calm down […]
Boredom and meditation
By martin edic on September 1, 2012 in Buddhism, Change, Expanding Your Life, Personal Power, spiritual awareness
I’ve been rereading Ani Tenzin Palmo’s Reflections On A Mountain Lake, my favorite example of contemporary Buddhist thinking. Tenzin Palmo went to India from England at age 19 in the early sixties after discovering Buddhism, in particular Tibetan Buddhism, which she immediately intuited was her way. She found a teacher, spent several years in India […]
On Dating and Meeting New People: Stop Traveling in Packs
By martin edic on July 17, 2012 in Change, Expanding Your Life, Fun, Meeting People and Dating, Personal Power, Relationships
For a lot of people the thought of going out alone is very uncomfortable. This is particularly so for many women because of feeling like a target or a possible victim. I understand this but it is much harder to connect with someone new if you’re traveling with a pack of close friends or co-workers. […]
Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety…
By martin edic on July 16, 2012 in Art, Change, Expanding Your Life, Personal Power, Quotes We Like, spiritual awareness
I recently reread Franny and Zooey, J.D.Salinger’s novel that paradoxically explores the meaning of faith and self-realization in the context of a very unusual NY family in the 1950s. In one pivotal scene, Zooey enters the room of his older brothers Buddy and Seymour for the first time in the seven years since Seymour shot […]
From The Power Book: Perfect Worlds
Whenever I hear a person say “in a perfect world I would be…”, I ask myself, “what they are waiting for?” I know the answer of course, that there are no perfect worlds. Or are there? There is a place where we can create any world we can think of, populate it with interesting people, […]
Stop Observing and Start Doing
I never used to take a camera on vacations. It always seemed that you either spent your time trying to catch representative pictures of your experiences or actually getting fully involved in those experiences. Going camera-less was my way of choosing the latter. Today, virtually everyone of us has a camera with us at all […]
Ten Things Most People Don’t Know About America
Absolutely blinding truths in this list… Though it sounds negative it is actually an incredibly positive message about the planet once we get past our myopic US POV.
The Power Book: The Essence of Personal Power
By martin edic on July 6, 2012 in Expanding Your Life, Personal Power, spiritual awareness, The Power Book
An enigmatic Yacqui indian man of knowledge, the CEO of the world’s largest corporation and the founder of a great world religion. What do they have in common? Don Juan Matus of the Carlos Castenada books said to live as though death stood to your left and could tap you on the shoulder anytime, because […]
Travel: Post from Meghan in Spain
My friend Meghan McT is traveling solo around the Mediterranean and Europe. She sent me a note from Spain (I believe she is en route to Croatia now). I’m hoping to add her as writer here to tell how she manages a great travel experience on a minimal budget. Here’s an excerpt: “Remembering our discussion […]