Monthly Archives: June 2012

Daily Teaching for Saturday, June 30th

There is nothing more important than taking the time to respond to others with care and genuine compassion. The reward can be seen in the face of the other.

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Daily Teaching for Saturday, June 30th

It is a sad commentary on American culture that so many of us have to be very tired or sick before we allow our emotions to surface.

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Daily Teaching for Friday, June 29th

One of the biggest benefits of an ongoing meditation practice is that I just don’t over-react nearly as much as I used to. Mind you, I’m not perfect and I still have my moments, but I have benefited greatly from … Continue reading

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Defending Turf: The Need to Label

It seems that religious types, especially those in institutional religion, just love to label the spiritualities and religions of other people. It never seems to be enough to just accept the labels that a groups self-selects, they need to define … Continue reading

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Daily Teaching for Thursday, June 28th

If you think you are self-sufficient, if you think that you pay for everything you use, if you think that you don’t need anyone’s help, then you must be a hermit subsistence farmer and  couldn’t possibly be reading this.

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The Milwaukee Police Department and Cranial Rectal Inversion

As I was going about my own business doing property inspections in the hood earlier this week I witnessed something so unbelievable I had to write about it. I had just finished working at a property and was getting ready … Continue reading

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Daily Teaching for Wednesday, June 27th

Twitterrhea: The uncontrollable, repeated emission of messages on Twitter above and beyond one’s normal rate.

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Street Smarts Retardation, A New Diagnostic Category

I saw something the other day that almost made me drive off the road. I was working in the hood, as I am wont to do, and as I drove along there was some damn fool white man looking at … Continue reading

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Daily Teaching for Tuesday, June 26th

It is just me, or does the fact that some male meteorologists seem to get several external symptoms of sexual arousal – shortness of breath, speech volume somewhat elevated, minor tremors, and flushing of the face – when discussing an … Continue reading

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Healthcare Selfishness

I am quite weary of the frankly irresponsible nonsense I hear in the national debate over healthcare. From the religious voices that seek to convince us that freedom of religion means they are free to impose their religious view on … Continue reading

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