Overcoming a Dysfunctional Litter
I heard a story on Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me the other day about a ban placed on triangular shaped flapjacks (in England, a flapjack is a granola bar, not a pancake) after a student was hit in the face with one. The sharp corners of the triangular-shaped bar could potentially put an eye out, [...]
Awhile back, I got in an online discussion with my friend CZ over at The Narcissistic Continuum about one of her posts called My Big Fat Opinion: The Secret. The Secret is a self-help/new age spirituality book that was wildly popular a few years back. It describes how people can put The Law of Attraction [...]
The truth is out there. — Fox Mulder, The X-Files Having cautioned against identifying too strongly in the labels we use, I’d also like to look at the flip side of labeling: the importance of having good maps, which are the methods we use to determine our labels. If labels are not reality but rather [...]
If you still consider yourself a Buddhist, then you are not yet awakened. – Tibetan Buddhist master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse (from What Makes You Not a Buddhist) Our brain is constantly processing data from all of its sensory inputs, so much so that a lot of this data doesn’t even consciously register; the brain labels [...]
Some people deal with criticism better than others, but I doubt there’s a person alive who welcomes it, even when it comes in a kind, constructive form from someone who truly has our best interests at heart. (Because let’s face it, we’ve all had the experience of needing a wake-up call once or twice in [...]
Recently, you may have noticed the increased amount of notices for you to notice. We notice that some of our notices have not been noticed. This is very noticeable. It has also been noticed that the responses to the notices have been noticeably unnoticeable. This notice is to remind you to notice the notices and [...]
I’ve been reading a book (a 6 volume book, actually) called Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. You don’t have to be into cooking to enjoy this book (although I am, of course); just about everybody enjoys eating, and this book is full of fascinating stories, historical information, and gorgeous photographs of food [...]
Compromise: a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.–from Dictionary.com In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.–Ayn Rand First off, this is not an article about politics. But politics offers a great [...]
26. But it is so very hard to be an on-your-own, take-care-of-yourself-cause-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown-up. (from Sheldon Kopp’s Eschatological Laundry List) One of my earliest posts on this blog, back in November 2007, was The Mark of Mature Thinking. The point of the post is that mature thinking is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas simultaneously–freedom [...]
…this state is not something you can bring about. This nondual state, this state of One Taste, is the very nature of every experience before you slice it up. This One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to [...]