bodhidave

bodhidave

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humanistic psychodynamic Buddhist deconstructionist ... and all-round sweet guy

interested in cross-cultural parallels in meditation traditions and contemplative practice

particular interest in Zen and the West's Via Negativa

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1\3 Offered in a thread which includes religion scholar, ‪Chrissy Stroop‬ (‪@www.bugbeardispatch.com) responding to a request for a working definition of "religion"...

ok ... you talked me into it ... just visited the Butterfly Bush across the street from me :)

future jefftopher🙋🏻‍♂️

"This sounds accursed."

As Steven Wright reminds us: "You can't have everything — where would you put it?"

oh my ... i'm sure there will be clips and rebroadcasts (e.g., Sunday morning) ... but I made a few notes for a friend:

👍

Viktor Winetrout

"Bond - welding bond."

"Wish you were here!"

"Doonesbury" for May 16, 1979

A pleasant last day of Pride Month. 🙏 ❤️ 🌈 This was the view outside my home this evening.

so, whenever you're around Jake — be like these children

🌷🪻 khthoniaa 🪻🌷

Speaking of ... I just saw a notice for this book (to be published in September, I think)

🌷🪻 khthoniaa 🪻🌷

(I actually used this book in my dissertation; it was pretty interesting and fun.)

daughter and momma groundhog outside my kitchen window this morning

Hi, it’s Abby. Yep.

good morning good morning from my kitchen window just now ... :)

1.2 I was on a Zen retreat this week. Took this picture of a moth on a window. Images search says it's a Tulip-Tree Beauty moth and a member of the "geometer" family. It hadn't occurred to me "geometry" means "to measure the earth." Those moths are so named bc their caterpillars are inch-worms. 🙂🙏

2.2 The Tulip-Tree Beauty moth caterpillars feed on magnolia trees. I took this picture a few feet from where I saw the moth.

✌️🙂

1- the view outside my kitchen window this weekend 2- the view outside my kitchen window yesterday 🙂 (I see that the terms for baby groundhogs [a.k.a. woodchucks, a.k.a. whistlepigs] include kits, pups, cubs ... and chucklings)

mais, c’est une peep

JosephScrimshaw

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒

... and red ties

a friend of mine met this non-fictional beauty earlier today and says that her name is "Snappy Pants"

Tim-my Eat World

I'm a psychologist & see psych as a modernist contemplative practice. And I agree, Christianity has many styles—pic is of a Presbyterian minister friend, Jim Rigby of Austin, protesting TX anti-immigrant law. A prof of mine, Wilfred Smith, distinguished mind-closing "belief" & heart-opening "faith."

sure enough — someone's created an Iggy Bot