ORDINARY MAN
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on April 20, 2016
In 1972 I was teaching at an alternative school in New Mexico. I introduced my class of eight-to-twelve-year-olds to a book called Born in Tibet and we all fell in love with it. When we learned that the author, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, was living in Boulder, Colorado, the children wrote a letter asking if they could meet him. Rinpoche replied...
Though the lojong teachings have been around for a thousand years, they are very much teachings for this age. Lojong aims directly at the core of our confused mind and gives us a multitude of tips for working with our habits on the spot. Yet lojong doesn't dwell on our confusion. Its purpose is to uncover the basic wisdom and compassion that is our...
In numerology, just like in astrology, there are certain times where things just line up in sync, and the energy is considered to be very strong in that moment. When the numbers relating to a certain date or time line up in some kind of pattern, it's called a portal, and you can imagine what that means: a portal is an doorway, an opportunity for a...
