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barry

joined on 06/25/07
last updated 05/09/08
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My Pamphlet of 24 poems published by the Heaven Tree Press more he...
photo posted 05/09
Re: A Story about Lama Wangdu (in Chöd) Put your ignorance on display!

Tada!

They wouldn't have shot it because they're Hindus, right?

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B
discussion post on Mon, April 14, 2008 - 1:03 AM
A Story about Lama Wangdu (in Chöd) Lama Wangdu is the wonderful Chöd master who's picture is the main photo on this group's page. Recently I met a lady from K'du who told me that a bull went mad in the city somewhere & became a public menace. Instead of getting the police to shoot ... read more
discussion post on Tue, April 8, 2008 - 10:57 AM
Tsultrim Allione teaching Chöd in Cornwall (in Chöd) Tsultrim Allione is the author of "Women of Wisdom" & has a new book on Chöd entitled " Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict" coming out this month. She is the founder of Taramandala in Colorado. She will be teaching ... read more
discussion post on Tue, April 8, 2008 - 10:52 AM
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Poetry Pamphlet Cover

My Pamphlet of 24 poems published by the Heaven Tree Press, Portrait by Colin Dick
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www.heaventreepress.com/
www.redsandstonehill.net/
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Their fundamental mistake was in trying to take refuge from their sadness in beauty
Mistaking love for some kind of reward in a fanfare of trumpets & horns
Turning away from the mind-wind that sings of the instant of awakening
They lost the natural opulence of our background radiation that surrenders & sighs
Believing that freedom must be found over there on the roadside of the wide, shouting world.

& the steps that they took from their doors in the safety of senile suburbia
Emptied ... read more
Fri, February 15, 2008 - 5:07 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
The rule is that you don't count total numbers but rather the maximum number of each species seen at any one moment so that you don't count the same bird twice. Counting blue tits in the treetops is tricky & it reminded me of when I was an undergraduate. Mind you I can think of far worse things to be doing first thing in the morning.

I went out on the common. This is what I saw:

200 common gulls
12 black headed gulls
5 great black backed gulls
4 herring gulls
20 carrion crows
9 mag... read more
Sun, January 27, 2008 - 5:57 AM permalink - 3 comments
 
Perfect Wisdom and the Goddess who shares its name cannot be apprehended by the discursive mind or the senses. She is, however, omnipresent as the essence of all phenomena; thus, she may be encountered in the midst of any experience or activity. To see the world as it is -- a dynamic, fluidic, open horizon of meaning – is to gaze upon her divine body and face.

Miranda Shaw, Buddhist Goddesses of India, Princeton University Press 2006
Fri, January 25, 2008 - 3:41 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
Listening to Last.fm

www.last.fm

It's a great online music resource!
Fri, January 25, 2008 - 3:25 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
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I'm a druid-yogi, naturalist mystic & performance artist.

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