Spiritual Mutt

I've never really been into Christmas that much. As a young child I was. I remember leaving my uncle's house hearing sleigh bells ...

Amazing how quickly a month can pass. Part of the reason is that I have become disinterested in spiritual debate. Too much Zen perhaps? It...

Labor Day weekend. Rode my bike down to the river. This is not the park, mind you. Too busy. Too many people. No privacy. No, this is ...

Am I content? Or complacent? I've lost the drive for knowledge though I am still passionate about learning. I don't desire to be ...

Ok, the front page of Beliefnet, where I hang out (as if it's cool...) and debate Christianity (and, for a while, Islam) has Wayne Dyer ...

We all know that the meanings of words evolve over time. A prime example is the word 'irony.' As made famous in Alanis Morrisete...

My interest in it seems to be waning. Does that mean I don't believe it? Or is it that my old notions of it are fading? I used to thi...

"Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:21, KJV) This is the favo...

In short, no. Sure there are parallel sayings and on a philosophical and generic "religious" level similarities. To deny thi...

For a teaching without words, it sure generates a lot of words. I suppose I should shut up.

"I have Three Treasures; Guard them and keep them safe: The first is Love. The second is, Never too much. The third is, Never be first ...

I kind of burned out on the whole religion thing. I found myself reading Lin Yutang's translation of the Dao De Jing. I have about ten...

I can rationalize and say that the Western media is biased toward Islam and the only reports given about Islam are the negative. On the fli...

Again. I seem to be spiraling into numbness, this gravitational pull down into the abyss.

My first truly "spiritual" experience was framed within the context of the Dao. I had been studying the Dao De Jing for a few ye...

Sometimes it takes a day like yesterday to get perspective on where we are. By the end of the day I was really sick of me. So of course th...

Nobody cares. Really. For the most part, every issue we face, everything we do, all that we accumulate and amass over our lifetime, all th...

I had some minor surgery yesterday, a couple of lumps removed from my back. I wasn't aware prior to yesterday that I'd actually be ...

So it's the weekend, Saturday morning, and I'm at work...again. I've just listened to Flunk's For Sleepyheads Only , a gem ...

Here is how I perceive the difference between the two faiths. Islam is natural. It is easy, recognizable, something of a "yeah...