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Beyond The Known E-Book Now Available
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Beyond The Known – 365 Days of Exploration
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This book is a calender of very short meditative explorations; one per day for an entire year. Some are statements, some are questions, and others just simple [...]
The Soldier
War is not the fault of the soldier.
They do not want to destroy, kill, or cause pain.
They want it all to end. They want to go home.
Many governments in this beautiful world do not take care of their soldiers. Once the job of a soldier is done, once usefulness is surpassed, they are tossed aside [...]
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Potential Violence
A message from a friend:
Whats the possibility of you and Akiko moving back to the USA? At least out of the way of North Korea's ballistic and long range missiles. I fear that Japan will see a lot of violence if the situation keeps escalating.
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War and Anger
Question of the Week: 9/22 - 9/28
This great question comes from iamasimpleman on the short post, No Mystery. "I have read your words several times and the begin to touch my heart. But there is something against it which comes directly from my heart, anger. And this anger says, want to say, sit Takuin in a time machine to Ausschwitz and than let him talk to these people. I can tell you and send you to a thousand places in history."
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Must War Continue?
This comment is from the previous post, Questions on Peace and War.
War will always be a constant in our lives. Violence and peaces are just smaller peices in the stream of chaos. Chaos rules all of us and everything we percieve as reality.
The war within ourselves, I believe is nothing but the constant struggle one [...]
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Questions on Peace and War
These questions come from various e-mails received over the last week.
“Do you think we will have peace in the world?’”
It is difficult for one to project a future in order to see what may happen. One can only sit with what is essentially the blood that pours through the veins.
The future, if seen as a [...]
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Quick Thoughts – Consciousness
Eckhart Tolle has a bit of a different definition. He calls us all consciousness, but it is all trapped in the form of identification with thoughts, beliefs, emotions, etc. The start of enlightenment is the slow removal of consciousness from all these forms, and letting just be [...]
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Order in Our World
I was at a talk last night on the topic of Order. I was not there as a speaker; just an observer. I sat quietly for the two hours, listening and observing my thoughts. It was wonderful to go into the subject of order, to find out what is there, if anything, and see if [...]
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