Karma Builder: Today’s Karmic Workout: Intention – Light A Prayer On Fire
Karmic Muscle Group: Intention Today’s Exercise: Light A Prayer On Fire Spend a few minutes thinking about the one thing you wish you could do for the world and the life in it. On a clean piece of paper or a piece of stationery, hand-write your…
The Word: Living In Language
In 2012, my good friend Terri Long, author of In Leah’s Wake invited me to participate in a short essay extravaganza on her blog site entitled For the Love of Love. Forty authors were asked to write short essays of various types on the topic of…
Karma Builder: Today’s Karmic Workout: Awareness – Taste Your Food
Karmic Muscle Group: Awareness Today’s Exercise: Taste Your Food Pick a meal and sit down to eat it. Take one full minute to think about what you are about to eat and where it comes from. Take another minute to think about why your body needs the…
Karma Builder: Today’s Karmic Workout: Compassion and Relatedness – Get To Know Someone
Karmic Muscle Group: Compassion and Relatedness Today’s Exercise: Get To Know Someone 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…
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…