Karma Builder: Today’s Karmic Workout: Chain Reaction Compassion – Empower A Clerk
Karmic Muscle Group: Compassion and Relatedness Today’s Exercise: Empower A Clerk Go to a grocery store and check out with a real cashier. Ask the clerk how their day is going. Be prepared for a brush-off answer. Then say, “No, really, how…
Karma Builder: Today’s Karmic Workout: Gratitude – Thank A Teacher
Karmic Muscle Group: Grace and Gratitude Today’s Exercise: Thank A Teacher Identify a person who as taught you something that is valuable Meditate on the value and benefit you have received from this knowledge Contact the person and thank them for…
Indie Publishing and The New Literary Democracy: Differentiating The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
They say that 82% of Americans would like to write a book. Tens of thousands of them do. The vast majority of the books that are flooding into the muddled market space of independent publishing are read only by the author and the author’s mother. This is…
Karma Builder: Today’s Karmic Workout: Honor Your Billions Of Dead Ancestors
Karmic Muscle Group: Gratitude Today’s Exercise: Honor Your Dead Ancestors Find a quiet place to sit. Turn off your cell phone out of respect and so you will not be interrupted. Think about your parents and then your parents parents and then your…
Karma Builder: Today’s Karmic Workout: Food Offering To Wild Beings
Karmic Muscle Group: Compassion and Relatedness Today’s Exercise: Make A Food Offering Pick a meal that you will actually sit down and eat. Spend at least a full minute looking at the food and realizing that it is more than you really need. Take at…
Christian Kindness On The Road To Nirvana
I would not have received the Buddhist training that I did over these past thirty years if it had not been for the love and compassion of two Catholic priests. In 1982, a friend of mine fished me out of a house where I had been living with ten other…
Parenting Inside A Hero Narrative
A long time ago, children played role playing games while climbing on gravel piles wherein one might be Superman and another Wonder Woman. In the course of acting out this very physical drama, children worked their bodies while they worked out the moral…
Calm In Conflict: Are Women Truly Prepared For The Competitive Business World?
My daughter took her first martial arts lesson when she was four. She had no choice. I was the children’s instructor at our dojo. Both my daughter and my son spent their Saturday mornings hurling other children around a padded canvas mat, learning to…
This Is My Daughter, This Is Your Daughter: Egypt’s Blue-Bra Girl
I have daughters. I demand freedom. I will not be a slave nor will I stand idly by for a single moment while ignorant animals of power abuse the innocent. I am a warrior by nature. I have a voice and I have a fist. Many people want to know why an…
The Meaning Of Christmas To This Thankful Buddhist
Over two thousand years ago, a baby was born who was raised to care about his people. He lived at time when the machine of Roman conquest had reduced Israel to a feeder colony for the most highly organized global economy known to man until recently. As…