Ted Seymour - Explorations of Truth
I am in ant killer! It’s true. I recently returned from being away from my home for about a month, and I walked into my kitchen only to find rivulets of ants flowing along the counters and cabinets. With rains just starting up, and with renters leaving little ant-tempting niblets tucked away around the kitchen, […]
I was just eating lunch here at Karma Ling in France, and something sweet and wonderful happened. We spend the first 15 minutes of lunch in silence (which I very much appreciate), and after taking a bite of some veggie stew with rice, I started to tear up. It was predominantly an onion bite, but […]
I want to write a little about noise. Not the obvious honking horns and airplanes taking off kind of noise, but rather the noise that only appears when everything is perfectly silent. I am writing this from Karma Ling, a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in the French Alps where I am spending a week. Twice a […]
I returned from my weekly local Buddhist Meditation group this evening and I must say I really love it. And not for any reason you could easily imagine. It’s not that it’s necessarily so educational, although it occasionally can be with some interesting talks by speakers. It’s not that I love the people who go […]
I’ve continued to be on quite a ride since returning to the states, but, at least for the moment, I seem to be coming through to someplace. Where, I’m not sure, but someplace. Lately, I’ve had this regularly occuring feeling of being disintegrated, of being dismantled in a way, like a 100,000 piece puzzle that’s […]
I think I need to throw out a counterbalancing entry here because both sides of the coin seem to be true here for me, I love it and I am hating it! Yesterday was a rougher day. I did let myself sleep in while in Anuradapura but then took the bus to Kandy at a […]
(This post written a couple of days ago). I’m at the Buddhafield Festival gathering at the moment near Glastonbury, England and am definitely loving it. It’s a large gathering of people who share a love of community, a capacity for celebration, are trying to live more consciously, and many of whom are working actively towards […]