acceptance
Buddhism as Psychology - Psychology of Changing What Can be Changed and Accepting What Cannot Be Changed
Buddhism - as a psychology - is the search for the Middle Path, away from the categorical and oversimplifying extremes of all or nothing judgements, out of the cognitively inflexible rut of the con
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"Princes all of them"
It´s been a tough week. I´ll just share my humble and imperfect, thus free, translation of Poema em Linha Reta by Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa):
Poem in a Straight Line
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What If People Like My Books?
An odd thought struck me this morning: what if people actually like my books? Over the past few years, I've racked up hundreds of rejections.
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Put the "Ba" Back Where It Belongs
Whether we sit alone or sit together, we sit in the ba. “Ba” is Japanese for a circumstance
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Mother's Day
- For many years, Mother's Day was one horrible day. I couldn't wait until it was over. I used to feel that way about Valentine's Day and Father's Day. Now I had Mother's Day to add to the collect
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Peace
- This semester I'm on sabbatical, and part of my project is to pair poems/short stories with each chapter in Eckhart Tolle's book, The Power of Now. I use Tolle's book in my Critical Thinking class,
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