Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Shambhala
LOVE should always make glad, never gloomy. We talked of Deerbrook in these days, Miss Martineau's novel. It is a good book to read: there is much observation and much heroism in it, and people will be better for the reading. yet the author is of that class who mistake a private for an universal experience and venture to record it. A perfectly sound nature may accept all his own experience for the univeorm experience of mankind, and so record it. BUt a man partially sick will be accepted only by the sick for general truths. To the well they will be offensive.
It is a delicate matter--this offering to stand deputy for the human race, and writing all one's secret history colossally out as philosophy. Very agreeable is it in those who succeed; odious in all others.
Journals, July 26, 1840
Page 83.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1965). Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson. J. Donald Adams (Ed.). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
*****
At this risk of what Emerson cautions against above, I will share an epic story from Thursday December 28, 2017. For the past few months I have been a docent, a volunteer at the Pacific Tsunami Museum. It is a wonderful museum.
It is a lot of fun working there, because I meet people from all over the world. From all over the world.
Sometimes I introduce the museum to guests: I kind of orient them, and basically explain what can be found in each of the exhibits. I also guide visitors to a theater located in the old bank vault, and start the film for them.
I had met and interacted with a couple visiting from California, named Rick and Gaia.
Later I introduced the museum to a couple from Colorado. I did not catch the names of this couple. But when they told me where they lived in Colorado, I mentioned that I am currently a student at Naropa University in Boulder.
About a half hour later, Rick came up and spoke with me for awhile. He had actually been in Boulder in 1974 when Naropa was founded. He asked me about my studies there, and I told him about the MA Ecopsychology program I am presently completing. He told me about being at Naropa in the 1970s, he shared with me encounters and experiences with some of the greats who have taught and studied there. I was able to ask him about his experiences with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Rick shared with me several experiences he had with Trungpa.
This was really cool, because I have been a student of Trungpa's writings for many years. I have read many of his books, listened to lectures, and read some of his books several times. So to have a chance encounter, at the Pacific Tsunami Museum, with somebody who studied under Trungpa, was very, very cool. I feel really lucky, and blessed.
This is the sort of chance encounter that happens to me in Hilo and on the Big Island quite often. I am grateful for the conversation with Rick. And I am looking forward to the next chance encounter, too!
😃
It is a delicate matter--this offering to stand deputy for the human race, and writing all one's secret history colossally out as philosophy. Very agreeable is it in those who succeed; odious in all others.
Journals, July 26, 1840
Page 83.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1965). Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson. J. Donald Adams (Ed.). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
*****
At this risk of what Emerson cautions against above, I will share an epic story from Thursday December 28, 2017. For the past few months I have been a docent, a volunteer at the Pacific Tsunami Museum. It is a wonderful museum.
It is a lot of fun working there, because I meet people from all over the world. From all over the world.
Sometimes I introduce the museum to guests: I kind of orient them, and basically explain what can be found in each of the exhibits. I also guide visitors to a theater located in the old bank vault, and start the film for them.
I had met and interacted with a couple visiting from California, named Rick and Gaia.
Later I introduced the museum to a couple from Colorado. I did not catch the names of this couple. But when they told me where they lived in Colorado, I mentioned that I am currently a student at Naropa University in Boulder.
About a half hour later, Rick came up and spoke with me for awhile. He had actually been in Boulder in 1974 when Naropa was founded. He asked me about my studies there, and I told him about the MA Ecopsychology program I am presently completing. He told me about being at Naropa in the 1970s, he shared with me encounters and experiences with some of the greats who have taught and studied there. I was able to ask him about his experiences with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Rick shared with me several experiences he had with Trungpa.
This was really cool, because I have been a student of Trungpa's writings for many years. I have read many of his books, listened to lectures, and read some of his books several times. So to have a chance encounter, at the Pacific Tsunami Museum, with somebody who studied under Trungpa, was very, very cool. I feel really lucky, and blessed.
This is the sort of chance encounter that happens to me in Hilo and on the Big Island quite often. I am grateful for the conversation with Rick. And I am looking forward to the next chance encounter, too!
😃
Friday, December 15, 2017
File Under Wetiko:
To spell out the connection explicitly:
File under wetiko because it shows how people are killed and consumed by the prescription drug/allopathic medical system. (I am not in the dualistic mindset that says everything in the system is bad. I am just sharing this source which claims that legal drugs kill more people than illegal drugs. An interesting factoid, huh?
Too much medicine – Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death
Too much medicine – Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Items of note
I am deciding what exactly I want to do with online resources at my disposal,
such as this blog.
For some of them, like this blog, I may utilize them by sharing resources that I think are worthy of note. Consider this entry an experiment.
I have many bookmarks from over the years, but sometimes it is difficult to locate a specific item that I remember. I think if I share them on the blog, it will make them easier to locate in the future, if they are needed. And by sharing them, others have the opportunity to encounter and engage with them as well.
I saw three items this morning that I want to remember:
Freud in the scanner
such as this blog.
For some of them, like this blog, I may utilize them by sharing resources that I think are worthy of note. Consider this entry an experiment.
I have many bookmarks from over the years, but sometimes it is difficult to locate a specific item that I remember. I think if I share them on the blog, it will make them easier to locate in the future, if they are needed. And by sharing them, others have the opportunity to encounter and engage with them as well.
I saw three items this morning that I want to remember:
Freud in the scanner
Life in the city: Living near a forest keeps your amygdala healthier
City dwellers who live close to forests have better brain health
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Guava
I saw the coolest thing yesterday: a rural road, a big yellow school bus, pulled far over on the left side of the road, so that the children could reach out the window and pick Guava. Only in Hawaii!
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