I think I finally ‘groked’ something that had been eluding me for the past several years. ’Grok’ if you are not familiar with it, comes from Robert Heinline’s classic sci-fi novel ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’. It means ‘to understand something at the deepest level’. My realization came while stripping the paint and varnish off [...]
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Vanity
Posted in experiences, tagged Realization, Stripping Varnish, Vanity, Varnish, Varnishing on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Present Moment
Posted in definition, exercises, tagged In the Moment, Present Moment, Zen on April 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
All the ‘good’ books, tell you to live ‘in the present moment’, which sounds like a really great idea. But, you can’t help but live in the present moment, because that is where you always are anyway, so, it is impossible NOT to BE in the present moment in ordinary attention. Though, sometimes, in our [...]
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