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by E. Raymond Rock - 2007-02-25
We all seek happiness, the bank robber, as well as the preacher. The Pursuit of Happiness is fundamental. So why aren't we happy? We have happy moments, but as we become older, the happy moments becom...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-04-03
Boulder was always spiritually alive, and one day I noticed a flyer tacked to a utility pole on the Boulder pedestrian mall advertising a two-day intensive meditation retreat in the neighboring to...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-17
When I first arrived at Shasta Abbey, a Zen Monastery in northern California, I was assigned to the goat department. My job was to graze kids (baby goats) on the mountainside every day among the M...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-22
We are meditating, or perhaps just walking on the beach, and WHAM! the insight strikes. Wow! But then what happens? In a millisecond, the interfering mind elbows right in, "WHAT WAS THAT? WHAT WAS...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-22
If we look at life openly, honestly, we see that life is stage upon which we hurry back and forth desperately attempting to satisfy one desire after another. Pay the mortgage, get some money, get ...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-24
A "thoughtless" person can be very dangerous to ourselves, and unpredictable as well. Thoughtless people are all over the place, we seem to run into them constantly these days, and when we do, we ...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-24
There's a bird that sits on the very top of a high telephone pole in the woods across from my house. I watch it almost every morning. This morning as I was watching it, my neighbor walked by. He e...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-25
What is death? For a Buddhist, it is more of a continuation than an ending. But what is it that continues; this is the tricky part. If you describe the Christian soul as being a repository of ever...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-25
Breath meditation begins with observing the breath at the nose tip, the solar plexus, or wherever you can notice it. Settle on one point, such as the rim of your nose or the inside of you nostrils...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-26
I glanced out the side window of the ‘37 Chevy and saw my grandmother making her way across the pasture. She had Grandpa's old, straw hat in her hand. The old coupe had a smell about it; mu...