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Destructive Spirituality
Destructive spirituality initially sounds like an oxymoron. How can something that is supposed to help us establish core values and make sense of life be destructive? The unfortunate truth is that abuse of power is commonplace in spiritual and religious organizations. The stronger our faith and thirst for meaning, the more vulnerable we are to…
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Escaping into Reddit
As I expand my Zen practice I’m taking time to look at my daily behavior. Lately I’ve found myself escaping into Reddit a lot. I’ve decided the solution is to collect my writing here instead. I’ve always liked message boards, going clear back to Usenet in the 1990s. Across decades of using them I’ve made…
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SEO is Annoying
I’m new to WordPress as I mentioned here. When I installed it though CPanel, it came with a lot of optional plug-ins. One was a free version of Yoast SEO. The free version has some very useful features but overall I’m finding that SEO is annoying and lowering my desire to blog. Adhering to inflexible…
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Zen and Running
I often listen to audio books or podcasts as I run. Lately I’ve been listening to Living Everyday Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck. The audiobook is a compilation of her dharma talks on many aspects of Zen practice. To my way of thinking, Beck is a hard-nosed teacher. She teaches incremental practice and largely avoids…
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Telling myself fewer stories
I was hanging out with a friend this weekend and she asked me why I practice Buddhism. I thought about it for a moment, and answered that it helps me stop telling myself so many stories. My friend replied “that’s the first answer I’ve ever heard that makes it sound appealing.” She said other friends…
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We ride!
And so another blog begins. The process of starting a new blog is familiar, yet unfamiliar. I’ve been making and abandoning personal pages since html had only a handful of tags as both my interests and technology wane and wax. There is always a template I don’t quite like, colors to set, configuration to check,…
Off the Cushion
Zen practice through writing
