CrankyBuddhist | the learning never ends

Today was a wonderful day. I almost didn’t know what to do with myself.
Yesterday I broke down, actually the process of breaking down started two days ago, with a trip to the DMV. It was decided that I might be staying in this house in Berkeley for awhile longer, so instead of treating my car […]

Getting out of my timely comfort zone is a practice in letting go.

I’ve been participating in a conversation on a travel oriented discussion board about a certain travel destination (one of my favorites) possibly going non-smoking. Yay!
The conversation has gone from both ends of the spectrum but it always seems that people get confused about one thing. The smokers think non-smokers are anti-cigarettes-smoking because we care about […]

I have been so far away from CrankyBuddhist for the last few weeks. The contract job is taking up a lot of my time. And I’m taking up a lot of my time too - creating projects for myself. Like I don’t have enough to do ;)
For the past few weeks my personal projects have […]

The difference between the two is sometimes like night and day …

Practice makes Perfection

Oh cookie joy! It’s that time of year again. Support your local Girl Scouts and get a sugar rush in the process!

Too much happiness is scary.

I haven’t made my mind up yet. That’s not what this post is about. It’s just about a speech, no a song. It’s really both. This post is about the beauty that politics can be, or maybe should be.

This one didn’t come from YouTube, this one came from blip.tv. Interesting effect of meditation. But it didn’t take a scientist for us to know that, now did it?

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The beauty of the world is found in the oddest of places. Here’s a dolphin entertaining himself at Sea World. He’s much more adept at this than I would be … as well as happy despite his captive circumstances. Maybe we could all learn a little from this guy.

This was one of my favorite songs way back when. I drove with a bunch of friends seventy miles in a snowstorm, in a jeep with no heat, to see Earl Scruggs play this song. The dharma is in the music.

A bit of dharma for Sunday morning. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche spits a lot in this one, but the message is clear.

A little music for Earth Day. I found a shorter version of this over on Karma Sister.

Over the past month or so I’ve been watching Tsem Tulku Rinpoche videos over on youtube. At first I didn’t know what to make of him, but the more I listen to him the more I like the way he teaches.

I first found this over on Renedage Buddha and couldn’t resist posting it here.

I went into the city on the day the Olympic torch was run to meet a friend for dinner. I wasn’t there early enough to see the protests, but I did catch a few signs of the day’s activity. This one I found in the window of a North Beach restaurant.

My next home on wheels :)

I found this over on Uncommon Pics:

We have a perfect example in The San Francisco Bay Area this weekend, the weekend after the oil spill. Hundreds of people headed towards the bay and the beaches to clean oil from the sand only to be turned away or arrested by local authorities.
Things were more tense Friday in Marin County, where Sigward […]

In and of itself, this a zen moment. Something to think about. From my perspective it’s even more so as I was having an online debate last week where I pointed out that we really couldn’t implicitly trust what the scientists had to say about climate change or global warming until we looked at who […]

I’m adding a new category for posts today … I’m totally borrowing the idea from John Stewart’s Daily Show. Every evening at the end of the show, he airs a snippet from the news that is both (usually) mind boggling and clear at the same time. Just like a zen moment!
The one that inspired […]