Category: Culture

Remembrance Day

I mourn their violent deaths, but I attempt to honor their memory by living with love and compassion and never considering anyone inferior to me.

Dead. I Dare You to Say It.

Maybe, as the world has become more technologically advanced and dying has become more sterile, we fear it more.

Of Blizzards and Email

If you have been reading Melting-Pot Dharma long enough, you know that I’m about to make a connection between blizzards and email and tie it all in to spiritual wholeness.

Let It Be – Part 2

I sat in one of those plastic DMV chairs, closed my eyes and began to meditate. The trembling and twitching stopped. I wasn’t happy, but I was beginning to let it go and return to the present moment.

A Non-Spoiler Non-Review

…watch the documentary. You will learn about what passes for justice for those in the under-class, and you may learn about your own biases.

Between the rock and a hard place

I am on a silent retreat but happened to find this and feel called to share it. Now back to the Noble Silence. My blog posts resume Sunday or Monday.

191 Days: Reflections on Ornette Coleman

Originally posted on Dr. Daniel Schnee:
天才を覚えます… The depths of winter are beginning to sing their song… bringing with them the memory of lost summer heat, and bare skin against the wind… the lost smile of the sun’s freedom… The picture above is my favorite picture of myself and my saxophone teacher, in his apartment…

the road

Originally posted on dhamma footsteps:
POSTCARD #180: Chiang Mai: For most people in the Christian world, the Christmas festival has jingle-bells, santaclausisms and the Jesus Teachings are embedded in this but that’s okay. Somehow the essence of it got assimilated in the warmth of our Christmas-shopping and why not, it’s all-inclusive isn’t it? For a…

Recovery from Addiction requires forward motion

Originally posted on jblea1016.com:
When I photograph something, it’s usually because of the movement I’m trying to capture. There’s always movement in life, whether or not we can see it. For example, in the pictures I’ve included, there is obviously the snow falling and the light reflecting. That implicit movement is what caught my…