I was walking around the farmer’s market and saw a bundle of kale that looked delicious; crispy and green, my mouth was watering as I imagined a crunchy salad for dinner. The problem, I had no cash. I went back inside and got in the painfully long line for the ATM. 5 minutes goes by and I have barely moved an inch, 10 minutes, 15 minutes and now, I…
สังเกตุเห็นคราบแดงๆ และเชื้อราดำๆ ตามฝากระเบื้องและกระจกห้องอาบน้ำ ไปซื้อน้ำยาขัดอย่างแรงมา แล้วคราบเหล่านั้นก็ค่อยๆหมดไป แต่ไม่นานก็กลับมาใหม่ ต้องทำความสะอาดกันยกใหญ๋อีก เริ่มมาคิดว่า เราทำอะไร ความสกปรกถึงมาถึงจุดนี้ได้ตลอด เหมือนกับแก้ปัญหาที่ปลายเหตุ หลังจากปัญหาบานปลาย คราบและเชื้อราเหล่านี้เกิดจากความชื้น บวกกับคราบสบู่ และแชมพูที่เหลืออยู่ตามผนังจากการอาบน้ำ ที่อาบน้ำเสร็จไม่เคยเช็ดให้สะอาดและเช็ดให้แห้ง นานๆเข้าก็สะสมกลายเป็นคราบอย่างที่เห็น
So yes, seriously, I did in fact get run down by a black rhinoceros when I was on safari in Kenya. Lets just say that some big learnings followed that encounter. Here I will share the entry from my notebook just after the incident (because, of course, I brought notebook on safari just in case I had a dharma run-in). Note, this is another example that closely follows the 5…
Again, I have chosen a story that utilizes a method that I have found particularly helpful in my practice. The method, which was taught at the 2012 KPY retreat, basically takes 2 objects and compares them as follows: A is Better than B B is Better than A A and B are essentially the same A and B are so different from each other they are not worth comparing Back…
I had these friends, we’ll call them, Blake and Sandy, who were always mooching off my husband and I. When we went to dinner, the grocery, the farmers market, the movies, these two would just stand on the side while my hubs and I pulled-out our wallets. I figured, for sure, when they hung out with other friends, it couldn’t be like that. So why were we always expected to…
So I will start by admitting that this short entry is less of a story or a contemplation and more of a moment — a brief flash of awareness. It must have been mid 2012. I was at the farmers market with some friends and the day was beautiful, perfect even. I was standing, with a delicious coffee in hand, looking out at a sparkling blue ocean and it hit…
Once I was vacationing in Thailand and while I was walking back to my place in Bangkok, I noticed a truck in the soi that lead to my place. It was carrying a large metal frame object. It was stopped and holding up traffic because it couldn’t get pass the low hanging wires. I saw a person on top of the truck wrapping a wire around the tangled wires. I…
In this next section I’ll share a few more stories from the “early days”(up till around June 2013). Some of these precede the Killing the Crazy story, but cover topics aside from paranoia, many are from the months shortly following that story (which occurred late 2012 or early 2013). The main point here is that as my anxiety levels began to diminish, I was able to ‘work the program’ and…
I am often asked by people in conversation “Can you believe that happened?!”. Usually this comes up after a gruesome news story. My thought is yes I can believe that happened. I believe it happened because that is the world today. What happened is part of what humans do. It is part of what happens in this world. There is yet to be something that I am not shocked a…
Disclaimer: I’m using my mom in my stories solely to share the process on how I learned things through my issues with her. Yes, we didn’t have good relationship for years but it has been a lot better now. Please keep on reading my newer posts if you’d like to find out what happened and what changed me. About 8.5 months after my dad passed away, my mom came…