Reposted from March 26, 2011, after the Japanese tsunami, which followed the Queensland floods, Christchurch earthquake and other manmade tragedies. Steve and Kathleen will be home tomorrow. I’m not sure why events in Japan have affected me so much. I sit here weeping, day after day, and I don’t know why. Of course the large death […]
Life is a Game – And It’s Rigged! – Part 1/2
Life is a game – and it’s rigged! It is. It actually is. (Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone. Wink, wink! Nudge, nudge!) How is it rigged? The answer lies in what Shankara called “the longing for liberation.” “[The] longing for liberation is the will to be free from the fetters forged by ignorance — beginning with […]