William Reed
The Occupation of the Soul

As human beings we become very occupied with life. We continue to live out the good, the bad and the ugly. We become occupied with keeping food on the table, raising our children, running our business, tending the garden and on and on. So it is with ourselves, we are preoccupied with life with its continuing disarray of ... read more
Julian Colgan
Knocking on samsara's sorrowful door,
the apprentice on the path
enters into the arena of self-created being.

"Why am I afflicted by the various
degrees of conditioned awareness?"

"Why have I allowed myself to become
entangled by the illusory influences of the mind?"

Upon hearing such mournful cries
from the apprentice,
Mara, the queen ... read more
Charlie Van Dyke
By Matthew Herper
From Forbes

Melinda Gates, the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, says that making sure all women have access to birth control must become “a total priority” for countries both rich and poor.

The argument was made during a half-hour talk at TED Exchange in Berlin. As part of this campaign, called No Controversy, sh... read more
Charlie Van Dyke
Om
Posted May 20, 2012 by Charlie Van Dyke in Small Bites
"I am the innate nature of everything. In pure water I am the sweet taste. In the sun and moon I am the radiance. In the very center of human beings I live as virility and courage. I am the sacred word Om, which designates the Divine, and I am the sound of it heard throughout the universe."

- Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita... read more
Charlie Van Dyke
Here Comes Nobody
Posted May 20, 2012 by Charlie Van Dyke in In The News
By Maureen Dowd
From New York Times

I ALWAYS liked that the name of my religion was also an adjective meaning all-embracing.

I was a Catholic and I wanted to be catholic, someone engaged in a wide variety of things. As James Joyce wrote in “Finnegans Wake:” “Catholic means ‘Here comes everybody.’ ”

So it makes me sad to see the Catholic Church... read more
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