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- ANDY PUDDICOMBE
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Cheese and Crackers
Recently, I've begun attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings near my home. This is difficult for me and a fair number of others to...
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Sep 12, 20247 min read
Rapt in the Mountain
A monastery. A mountain. Reflection. Some penance. Mostly memories. I am an old man who has returned to the source of his redemption. Too...
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Sep 12, 20246 min read
Detritus
Like one's house, the mind may clutter up with a noticeable residue that slows its processes and clogs up the gears, so to speak. These...
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Jun 23, 20234 min read
"Blyth" Spirit
"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of...
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Mar 7, 20236 min read
Who is Who?
"The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor...
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Feb 9, 20234 min read
Mindfulness & Meditation (Part II)
In Part I of "Mindfulness & Meditation," I asserted that mindfulness and meditation are two different acts. The first may lead to the...
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Oct 14, 20224 min read
Mindfulness & Meditation (Part I)
, "Stress, anxiety, productivity: mindfulness is often touted as a solution to nearly everything. But research shows that you can...
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Sep 20, 20224 min read
Who is IT?
Several times a week, I visit Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. Fisherman's Wharf is the most visited tourist attraction in the city....
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Jul 27, 20224 min read
The Maze and the Labyrinth
The "Man In The Maze" is a visual representation of the Tohono O'odham people of the Southwest. They believe in life, death, and life...
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Jul 17, 20222 min read
Finding Your Own Eternity
Of perhaps a hundred or so quotes I reviewed on Life, Death, and Eternity, two leapt out. Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus 4-65 C.E.)...
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Mar 15, 20224 min read
The Rakasu and the Koan
"How great and wondrous are the clothes of enlightenment, Formless, yet embracing every treasure. I vow to unfold the Buddha's teaching,...
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Feb 8, 20228 min read
"Gita" Life!
Today, I direct readers to what may seem an unlikely resource for spiritual information and advice. The Art of Manliness blog is...
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Dec 17, 20213 min read
Circles
The power of the world always works in circles.-- Black Elk* I'm a layperson. Yet, I have what I call a home monastery. Truthfully, in...
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Dec 1, 20215 min read
Going Postal! Significance-Actualization
Meditation coaches must work. Indeed, coaching meditation, writing, and teaching religious subjects is a profession. But if one is not a...
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Aug 17, 20219 min read
Walk in Beauty (Part II)
In Beauty, I walk With Beauty before me, I walk With Beauty behind me, I walk With Beauty above me, I walk With Beauty around me, I walk...
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Jul 15, 20212 min read
Walk in Beauty (Part I)
Almost forty years ago, I was blessed to live and work at the Grand Canyon's south rim in northern Arizona. Like many I worked with,--and...
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Jul 10, 20213 min read
Ignorance is Dis'
Some time back, I read that Oral Roberts University, founded as a tiny Christian Bible College by the eponymous evangelist in 1963, had...
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Jul 1, 20217 min read
Who Do You Want To Be?
In a past blog, we've discussed the differences and similarities of the verbs "to meditate" and "to contemplate." At CloudMeditation, we...
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May 10, 20213 min read
Alone Together
I have written of polarities. I describe the notion as an arc simply because I like a curve's softness more than a line's directness. The...
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Apr 15, 20213 min read
OM: Superstar of Mantra Meditation
What is a mantra? The New Oxford Dictionary defines mantra as a "noun denoting a word or a sound repeated to aid concentration in...
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Mar 16, 20216 min read
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