Author: Ted Seymour

Noticing lately how difficult the truth can be to find. It’s not that it’s so elusive, but rather I believe because we don’t really want to find it. I know that some people bristle a little when I say “the truth,” so I’ll attempt to provide a definition. I am defining “the truth: as “the […]

I think I’ve figured some of this stuff out as it pertains to Support and it has to do with Kindness. I didn’t expect that at all, but it seems to be very related, at least within myself. You see, I’ve always seen support as something practical. When it comes to true support, or support […]

I’m still intrigued by the concept of Support and what it really means, and where it’s really supposed to come from. There is something that some people refer to as “False Will,” which basically means an internal sense of capacity/strength which develops as a practical substitute for a true internal capacity which is otherwise lacking. […]

My Buddhist Priest friend Robert called me last evening and while on the call we talked about what I’ve been going through lately. He seemed so happy for me that I was having a difficult time. He kept saying, “That’s it!” when I told him of some of the difficulties. I guess his point is […]

More going on here. Still now sure how clear that last post was. It seems to make sense to me, but it also feels a little scattered, which I guess mirrors how I feel inside. My friend Eric commented on my last post and mentioned Frodo having gotten “a ‘magical light’ that was given to […]

Sorry I haven’t written in awhile. I went off on a retreat for nine days and I’ve been nursing a bad back for another 7 so I haven’t really had much time at the computer, but I have had time to think and be, and I’m finding thinking much easier than being. Being laid up […]

I was eating breakfast with a friend of mine the other day and our discussion turned to presidential politics. We talked about who we were thinking of voting for for president in the upcoming primaries. I mentioned to him that I was leaning towards John Edwards (he had not yet dropped out of the race) […]