The playwright Oscar Wilde summed up a huge secret to success: “Everything popular is wrong.” Somehow… some way… even from the very early age of 7, I’ve always known that was true. You see, I always knew in my gut something wasn’t right about this strange reality where I’ve been exiled to live this current [...]
Until Easter last year… when I decided to become a saint (it ain’t going that great, by the way)… since age 7 the only thing I ever wanted to do with my life was be a musician. Primary instrument, guitar… if you care to know. That had been the number one passion — and focus [...]
Once upon a time there lived a hot-tempered lady in a village. She used to get angry over little things. In anger she used to say a lot of abusive words. And when her anger subsided, she would feel very sorry. Her whole family was upset because of this habit. And there was always an [...]
The other day I ran across a video on YouTube. It was a video tour of Thomas Merton’s hermitage. If you don’t know who Tomas Merton is, that’s a story for another time. But long story short, he was a Trappist monk who became quite famous for his writings. (Something I believe you should become [...]
Rinpoche Palden Gyatso was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. BTW, in Tibetan Buddhism, “Rinpoche” is a title of honor. It means an incarnate lama or a highly respected religious teacher. Anyhoo, Rinpoche Palden Gyatso was arrested for protesting during the Chinese invasion of Tibet. He spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps where he [...]
