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giving up disbelief ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I usually try to keep Lent in some fashion. It’s a wonderful practice, to offer up a piece of your everyday life for good. To think of your everyday life as a kind of, well, prayer. As a Buddhist, I don’t know that I ‘pray,’ in the Christian definition of prayer. I don’t believe in…
(active) sitting ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I’ve mentioned elsewhere in this blog — more than once — that I’m a lousy traditional meditator. I suspect a lot of working American Buddhists are. It’s hard to find time to sit on a zafu and meditate. Dinner, work, email and other stuff take over my days like petty despots. They scream like the…
resolutions, new years, & new cycles ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
So you may be thinking: New Year’s resolutions? It’s the middle of January! But it’s also (almost) Chinese New Year (January 23rd, just FYI). And this is a big one for me — my birth cycle returns. Born in the Year of the Dragon, the Dragon is once again at the helm of the year.…
phosphate-free dishwashing detergent and post-holiday clarity ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
We don’t use phosphates in our dishwasher. They cause algae bloom, and lower the oxygen in water, suffocating fish if the bloom is excessive. But their replacements — phosphate-free detergents — transform your originally clear and/or white dishes into cloudy, powder-covered trophies of environmentalism. I’m making peace with that. But I had this epiphany today,…
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