Thought I would start regularly pointing to good stuff that copmes through my feed readers. For the record I actually use two feed readers: Bloglines for my regular reads (you can see my feeds here) and Google Reader for everything else. What I like about Google Reader is that they have a littel “Next” button that you can click to see the next post in your feed in its own context. So that’s cool. Anyway, after trolling the feeds this morning, here is what struck me: James Glave on where the real Green Shift will come from: …
The single greatest indication that the world has changed since Tuesday is the idea that Americans no longer have to sew a Canadian flag on their backpacks to get respect in Europe. If you really want safe passge, sew an Obama logo on instead.
From Patrick Moberg
Oh hey it’s you! Hey honey! Look who’s back! Man, we’ve missed you. How have you been? We’re okay…we’ve been thinking good things for you the whole time you’ve been away. Looks like life’s had it’s way with you. Ouch. Where’d you pick up those scrapes? It was hard when you first left. We were so there with you when you had your big shock. It was hard to watch you get angry like that. You hurt a lot of people you know. I mean we knew we’d be safe, …
I was listening to a dharma talk by Steve Armstrong (listen to it here) on working with the defilements of the mind. He begins the talk by quoting the Buddha who says that the pure mind is radiant and bright and that everything else is the result of being visited by defilements. In Buddhism these include greed, aversion and delusion. Less important than the dharma content of this talk though is a line that Steve Armstrong said that zinged home with me. He said that when we sit down to meditate, we should not expect to have …