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Our journey to peace begins today, and every day. Every step is a meditation. Every step is a prayer. Every step builds a bridge to peace.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Loving Our Enemies

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How can we love our enemies? Because we recognize that loving-kindness is alive in every heart. We love the evil-minded because they ...
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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Impenetrable Moral Darkness

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Has technology threatened human survival? Thomas Merton, sitting on the front porch of his hermitage in Trappist, Kentucky, fretted over ...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

On the Calling of a Cynic

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I came across this passage in Epictetus that reminded me of wise man's way of life. The Cynics were philosophers who were like monks....
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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Reading Jacques Ellul

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Jacques Ellul s ays that technology has “destroyed everything which people have ever considered sacred. This is the horror of our civili...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Tantric Theravada in Cambodia -

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Tantric Buddhism became ascendant  in Angkor during the reign of King Jayavarman VII. His great temples in Angkor Thom, especially the...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Where are you going? Part 2

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Material-development and growth fuels the economy. Policy makers, technicians, bureaucrats intensify their efforts to accelerate and ex...

Where are You Going? Part 1

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I often contemplate the effects of technology on human person, and on society. What is technology for ? Does nature need, or bene...
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Thomas
A Buddhist monk for nearly twenty five years, a meditation teacher that gave instruction to about 40,000 people during that time. I practiced deep meditation as a recluse – a forest monk - in jungles and caves of Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, and Laos. After having an inner, transformative, illuminative experience, I have now returned to full communion in the Catholic church. I have withdrawn from the monastery but how shall I live now, for the benefit of all beings?
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