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January 21, 2006
How do we get to peace?
For me, radical peace begins inside each of us.( As we confront who we take ourselves to be, look at fears, biases, judgments.) Primarily these are all fear based. We can either love or be afraid, but denying fear doesn't change anything. If we look at our fears, we'll realize we are like everyone else, change will occur with the humility that grace extends to us.
What we project onto the world is from inside ourselves. If we believe we are better or worse than others, we create that image, if we believe the world is a horrible place, we create that as we project it upon the world.
Our perception of the world comes from inside us, not outside as much as we believe that to the contrary.
A new world dawns every moment, except that we in our own holding patterns keep ourselves from freedom, and living a life that is flowing and alive.
We do have power, from inside we create what we will see, bad or good, indifferent, cruel, loving, we will add that to this illusion of life we have created. Once we are at peace inside, we will create what is only truth, what is permanent, we will be in agreement with the universe.
Power to create beauty, and harmony is love.
Love is free from fear, but we can't get there by looking outside ourselves, we must look long and hard inside. What we will see then will transform our lives and the world. It will tell us the truth of who we are.
We are that love for which we search for, we are THAT! Divinity is our truth.
What we project onto the world is from inside ourselves. If we believe we are better or worse than others, we create that image, if we believe the world is a horrible place, we create that as we project it upon the world.
Our perception of the world comes from inside us, not outside as much as we believe that to the contrary.
A new world dawns every moment, except that we in our own holding patterns keep ourselves from freedom, and living a life that is flowing and alive.We do have power, from inside we create what we will see, bad or good, indifferent, cruel, loving, we will add that to this illusion of life we have created. Once we are at peace inside, we will create what is only truth, what is permanent, we will be in agreement with the universe.
Power to create beauty, and harmony is love.
Love is free from fear, but we can't get there by looking outside ourselves, we must look long and hard inside. What we will see then will transform our lives and the world. It will tell us the truth of who we are.
We are that love for which we search for, we are THAT! Divinity is our truth.
January 20, 2006
Happy Birdday to me ..From Cat
My cat must have gotten confused today, he noticed my bird Xmas tree which is gone now, making a connection that I may be out of birds. He must have thought it was my ,"birdday," because he went out and got a bird and brought it in when I was not home, he seemed so dejected, he was trying to wish me a," Happy Birdday!"
Of course you'd understand why a cat wouldn't understand birthday, but would think you might be saying birdday, right?
So , this is the first time a pet gave me a birthday present, and I am sure he worked very hard to get it, as he is not very gingerly when springing. ( weighing in now at about 14 lbs.)
After dark all cats are leopards.
Native American Proverb (Zuni)
He has been so curious of late, we got a red laser light, and we use it to play with him. He is so perplexed about this red bug that is in the house, he feels a failure for not being able to capture it. He spends more time indoors now trying to catch it, and waits for it to come out. He is always looking places he has seen it disappear.
I had made it disappear into my shoes, so you can imagine how shocked he was and how funny he looked at me when I put my shoes on! Technokitty on the spot!
He was incredulous!
He even made the connection yesterday that the flashing numbers on the DVD must be where it comes from. Suddenly he had linked many household things together. He then began noticing the volume setter on the TV screen, and how it is a light going up and down. So he began watching TV a lot. Now he springs off the coach when a line is being drawn around something, on TV,( today's case a heart being drawn) moving like these electronic devices do, He paws the TV. ( Not pause, but paws)
He even noticed animals and paws them.
He is such a smart kitty, becoming conscious of things he never was before.
Wow, what a cat. Maybe his name is...." Einstein." ( Speaking of Einstein...
Einstein
Well, Happy Birdday to me!
Of course you'd understand why a cat wouldn't understand birthday, but would think you might be saying birdday, right?
So , this is the first time a pet gave me a birthday present, and I am sure he worked very hard to get it, as he is not very gingerly when springing. ( weighing in now at about 14 lbs.)
After dark all cats are leopards.
Native American Proverb (Zuni)
He has been so curious of late, we got a red laser light, and we use it to play with him. He is so perplexed about this red bug that is in the house, he feels a failure for not being able to capture it. He spends more time indoors now trying to catch it, and waits for it to come out. He is always looking places he has seen it disappear.
I had made it disappear into my shoes, so you can imagine how shocked he was and how funny he looked at me when I put my shoes on! Technokitty on the spot!
He was incredulous!
He even made the connection yesterday that the flashing numbers on the DVD must be where it comes from. Suddenly he had linked many household things together. He then began noticing the volume setter on the TV screen, and how it is a light going up and down. So he began watching TV a lot. Now he springs off the coach when a line is being drawn around something, on TV,( today's case a heart being drawn) moving like these electronic devices do, He paws the TV. ( Not pause, but paws)
He even noticed animals and paws them.
He is such a smart kitty, becoming conscious of things he never was before.
Wow, what a cat. Maybe his name is...." Einstein." ( Speaking of Einstein...
Einstein
Well, Happy Birdday to me!
January 19, 2006
New Release!!!
Free Books in Washington
Go here to find books in your community, or to release some..
I am releasing my first book today at the "Old" Mukilteo Coffee Company. (everyone knows it by that name!) Up on the hill above the Mukilteo Ferry Landing.
( I never remember the new name, it will always be The Coffee Co. to me)
Title:
An Invitation to Peace, A Gift of Love. It is my own book I am releasing.
It's nice to make a change, let something go, especially when it is a book you've written, but not really published exactly..yet. my ONLY copy!
I will release it in the afternoon there.
Help me track my book!
An Invitation to Peace, A Gift of Love
by Sherry McDonald Stewart category Religion & Spirituality
booksellers: amazon.com | alibris.com | ebay.com | barnesandnoble.com | powells.com | bookcloseouts.com | abebooks.com | amazon.ca | amazon.co.uk
BCID: 546-3619544 delete book | edit book details | new journal entry
TBR | AVL | PC | RES | TRAV
1 journaler for this copy...
This book is currently in the wild!
Journal entry 1 by jereez(1/1) from Mukilteo, Washington USA on Thursday, January 19, 2006
A small book, as yet officially unpublished, with photos and inspirational text. Photos are of Pacific NW areas, that many people never see. Heather Lake under snow, elwha River area, etc.
Inspiring uplifting book with photos that serve as icons to help make the ideas remain constant..
book rating:
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Journal entry 2 by jereez(1/1) from Mukilteo, Washington USA on Thursday, January 19, 2006
Planned release in about 6 hrs (1/19/2006 11:00:00 AM BX time) at " Old" Mulilteo Coffee Company uphill from Ferry in Mukilteo, Washington USA
RELEASE NOTES:
Will be inside a large yellow mailer, left on the large community table.
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January 18, 2006
Goggle Blog Search, Don't get burned!
Searching for what WE have to say about corporations and how they treat us? Etc. Try this... Just enter, Sprint for example, or Expedia, or Orbitz,...and please do blog what you experience. When you are treated badly by what is supposed to be Customer Service, just jot your details down on your blog, CS reps name, supervisor name, numbers, all info, and post it for us to see, and make our own decisions about.
Blog Search
Orbitz customer service reports
Orbitz has really bad CS! Don't know hw they call it customer service, except as I learned in college, any service indicated you will get the shaft! ( as in internal revenue SERVICE, social security SERVICE....hmm.
Anytime I get people, "helping," me, by being impolite, aggressive, difficult to get a hold of, uncooperative....somehow I don't feel I am being helped! Do you?
Just my report that Orbitz, along with Expedia; and Sprint, Verizon, to name a few, are totally powerful, overly aggressive, companies, that have no regard for their customer base, A scary situation, if you ask me!
I won't back off!
In the 90's airtouch screwed me, or thought they did, their CS supervisors were rude and snotty.
So I called Bartells drugstore, in Washington ( where I initially purchased the phone) with my complaint, Guess what?
They took all airtouch phones out of their stores!
Wonder who called me then? Sales rep for the area. No CS person, but the sales rep was affected by it, and the phones weren't in Bartell's anymore, Good enough for me, Fight back! BTW, I love Bartlells! If you shop locally with reputable companies with good CS, you won't get burned so bad.
BTW, Orbitz visited my blog!
Blog Search
Orbitz customer service reports
Orbitz has really bad CS! Don't know hw they call it customer service, except as I learned in college, any service indicated you will get the shaft! ( as in internal revenue SERVICE, social security SERVICE....hmm.
Anytime I get people, "helping," me, by being impolite, aggressive, difficult to get a hold of, uncooperative....somehow I don't feel I am being helped! Do you?
Just my report that Orbitz, along with Expedia; and Sprint, Verizon, to name a few, are totally powerful, overly aggressive, companies, that have no regard for their customer base, A scary situation, if you ask me!
I won't back off!
In the 90's airtouch screwed me, or thought they did, their CS supervisors were rude and snotty.
So I called Bartells drugstore, in Washington ( where I initially purchased the phone) with my complaint, Guess what?
They took all airtouch phones out of their stores!
Wonder who called me then? Sales rep for the area. No CS person, but the sales rep was affected by it, and the phones weren't in Bartell's anymore, Good enough for me, Fight back! BTW, I love Bartlells! If you shop locally with reputable companies with good CS, you won't get burned so bad.
BTW, Orbitz visited my blog!
Butta cup, my couch kitty
OHH, it feel soooo good to stretch after being couped up on the couch watchin TV!
Stuff on my Cat One of the top 100 sites of 2005.
How to Live without Worry and Fear
How to Live without Worry and Fear and other titles from Dharma resource foundation, Corporate Body of Buddha Education Foundation. This ( How to live without worry and Fear) and other books distributed for free. Also downloadable information available.
"We are a Buddhist foundation based in Taipei, Taiwan, and it is our goal to promote the Buddha Dharma and to make the teachings freely available to the general public. We do not favour any one school or sect over another, and all are afforded equal respect.
Please check our list of services, and we hope that you will find something that will benefit your practice and study of the Dharma."
This book mysteriously appeared at my home, really, suddenly one day in a stack of books, there it was, and it is a gem of a book.
I suspect it was in a group of books I took from a friend that was moving away. At any rate, I learned of this organization that gives it's books away, and asks that books not be sold, but given after reading them.
I am happy to see that the WHOLE world is not marketing how not to suffer.
There is so much suffering, it is good to see that people really care.
In this world, some people have received great help from others, and then they simply use that experience to make themselves marketable, and are not helpful to others as they were helped. So I love this oranization, and I am passing it on to you to blog about, to use, to share in any way, and I hope that you do.
This would be a really good book for book crossings. What is BookCrossing? bookcrossing:
n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
(added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004)
Buddha Education Foundation Form:
APPLICATION FOR SMALL QUANTITY OF BOOKS:
Please complete the following order form in clear block capitals and return to:
The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation,
11F., 55 Hang Chow South Road Sec1, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
TEL: 886-2-23951198, FAX: 886-2-23913415
E-mail: overseas@budaedu.org
A. (Please print in clear BLOCK CAPITAL LETTERS)
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Contact person in your organization:
Full Address (including area postal code, country name):
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B. Please indicate the reference number, title of the book(s) or Buddha picture(s) and the amount of books or Buddha pictures for each title that you you wish to order (Note: we only can recognize English titles, so if you want to order books in another language, please only write the book reference number - reference numbers can be found on the following website: http://www.budaedu.org/en/). If the books you want to order can not be found on our website, we can do nothing. For personal orders (ie. not for monastery or organization use), please try limit the number of books requested to five. Also, please list the books in the order of preference.
For example :
1. EN125 CHANGING DESTINY one copy
2. TI101 one copy
3. Bp001 Namo Amitaba Paper Poster one copy
Please state what you want to order below:
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Please note: We can only send material according to the availability of stock
January 16, 2006
Hierarchy to Integration/Wingmakers...maybe of interest to someone
January 13, 2006
Dear friends,
The below summary of the empowering essay Shifting Paradigms explores a key shift that is occurring in our lives and world. In the old hierarchical paradigm, we tended to look to those above us in the hierarchies of our world for answers to life's deepest questions. In the newly emerging paradigm, a growing number of us are choosing to focus more on looking for wisdom and understanding within ourselves.
Shifting Paradigms describes our changing world from a broader, deeper perspective than I have ever seen. Though the words may not touch everyone the way they did me, I invite you to see if there aren't a few pearls of wisdom below that might move and inspire you. I know from a place deep within that both individually and collectively, we are indeed shifting paradigms towards a life and world filled with ever deeper wisdom and integration. I share this essay wishing for you much inspiration and empowerment in all aspects of your life. May the times ahead for all of us be filled with an abundance of hope, meaning, and joy.
With best wishes,
Fred Burks
From Hierarchy to Integration
Shifting Paradigms Fred Burks, once a translator for Clinton and Bush, Fred is the originator of several sites, one is web of love. His writing is interesting, and I thought I would just pass it along at this time.
Wingmakers original site Ancient Arrow
Dear friends,
The below summary of the empowering essay Shifting Paradigms explores a key shift that is occurring in our lives and world. In the old hierarchical paradigm, we tended to look to those above us in the hierarchies of our world for answers to life's deepest questions. In the newly emerging paradigm, a growing number of us are choosing to focus more on looking for wisdom and understanding within ourselves.
Shifting Paradigms describes our changing world from a broader, deeper perspective than I have ever seen. Though the words may not touch everyone the way they did me, I invite you to see if there aren't a few pearls of wisdom below that might move and inspire you. I know from a place deep within that both individually and collectively, we are indeed shifting paradigms towards a life and world filled with ever deeper wisdom and integration. I share this essay wishing for you much inspiration and empowerment in all aspects of your life. May the times ahead for all of us be filled with an abundance of hope, meaning, and joy.
With best wishes,
Fred Burks
From Hierarchy to Integration
Shifting Paradigms Fred Burks, once a translator for Clinton and Bush, Fred is the originator of several sites, one is web of love. His writing is interesting, and I thought I would just pass it along at this time.
Wingmakers original site Ancient Arrow
January 12, 2006
Happy Birthday Daphne
Daphne was born on this morning in 1968, that morning I awoke at 7:30 AM and one hour and 6 minutes later, she was born. A simple labor, and a big baby, largest in the nursery, weighing almost 9 lbs.
Daphne is my daughter and my friend, She is patient (like me) and takes good care of everyone, is the best Mom ( learned from me). Well someone has to take the credit here,..Smiling!
I was in the hospital 6 days, could have stayed a 7th, but was completely tired of being in the hospital, so I drove myself,f and my baby home and work as if I had never had a baby at all. 6 days in a hospital seems it will cure anything!
I weighed 136 when she was born. Before I became pregnant I weighed 100 lbs. I was at 100 lbs again within 6 weeks of her being born. I weighed 8'6" when I was born. My Mother weighed 13 lbs at birth! My Grandmother weighed 100 lbs when my Mother was born! My Mom was the last of 5 kids.
I just returned home from Daphnes, and it was so nice to be there with all of them, I just wish I could have been there for her birthday today.
Happy Birthday Daph!
Photo is of Daphne and Karen
January 08, 2006
Back in Washington..finally.....maybe just for a short stint...
A particulary interesting message from Bebbie including this quote from Joseph Campbell. Thank you Beb!
"Give it a few minutes, Hon, and things will change." Bebbie
"So yield to what is coming. We're in a free fall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along.
"And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. I mean it's a very interesting shift of
perspective, and that's all it is. Joyful participation in the sorrows
and everything changes."
I have so much to share with you all, but it may take a bit for me to get around to it. For now, let me post some beautiful swan photos from my stay in MO.
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