The day I got home from my first Vipassana meditation course, I put away my mala, all my books on Buddhism, stopped my daily recitations, prostrations and chanting. I went to the course as a devout Buddhist and came out agnostic. The absolute perfection of this is Vipassana is one of the 40 meditation…
Author Archives: Jayne Holiday
You Gotta Let That Girl Boogy Woogy
“What causes you to be trapped is what we call personal importance. Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about “me.” During the period of our education or our domestication, we learn to take everything personally. We think we are…
A God Among Dogs
Yesterday I had to take my dog to be put to sleep. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done. There was a whole deeper meaning to the situation that made it all the more difficult. Thor was the sixteen-year-old dog of my soon-to-be ex-husband, Mark. The sorry story is…
A Sean’s Song Part 2
So what happened with Sean? I went to see him in Seattle and he met me at the airport with a single red rose. Cheesy yes, but I loved it. He is so tall and just hot he could have done just about anything and I would have thought it was great! He…
So, You Think You Know Someone and…
My very old Mac was slowing dying, so before the inevitable crash, I bought a new one a couple of months ago. During the files transfer, Word for Mac got corrupted, so I now use Pages, which I think sucks mainly because I don’t know how to use it and it’s not…
Don’t Tell Me You Love Me
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I…