Writing about a dharma journey without exploring meditation would be possible but probably not for me. What is meditation? B.K.S. Iyengar (2002) teaches us “dhyana is not self-induced trance.” Meditation is a contemplative practice. Meditation takes on many forms. the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (Radiance Sutras) suggests over 100 ways to meditate (Roche & Rea, 2014). […]
When did I first learn about the dharma? The true answer would be I don’t know. The most likely answer is when I took a course in comparative religion when I was a sophomore in college. Did I understand the material I was trying to retain? I think I got a B in the class […]
I am not in prison at the Brushy Mountain Prison in Petros, TN (the prison was closed in 2009) nor have I ever been. I did however grow up in Wilkes County, NC and live there once again. The Brushy Mountains are a spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains which are separated from the main […]
(This post was first posted with the original blog so I am posting it again.) The reference Dharma Bum comes from Jack Kerouac’s book The Dharma Bums (1959). I read this book in the summer of 1972 while I was killing time. My reason for killing time that summer was I had just graduated from […]
I started this blog too long ago to actually remember and I only made a few posts. I am trying to start again and I think I may actually have saved some of the old material so I will post that again. The reason for the total stoppage and reboot was malware attacks that caused […]