Aspiring Wise Fool

Category: Daily Life

  • Half-Lessons are lives half-lived

    A full lesson (truth) is one that is understood as fully emotionally as it is intellectually.  It is known not only in the mind but the heart.  I am convinced that most of us are brim full of what I call “half-lessons” (you may call these half-truths). Among other things, life is an experiential process. When…

  • My Dear Students

    Friends, On this very sad day for our campus, I just wanted to send an email to each of my current and former students. Please forgive me if you receive several copies of this. I am using blackboard to communicate and some of you may have had several classes with me. I just want all…

  • Searching versus Existing

    No chakras to open, chants to hum, or endless sermons to listen to.  No mantras to repeat over and over.  No scriptures to memorize or stories to believe, defend, and pointlessly argue about.  No clothes to buy, crosses or beads to wear.  No creeds to recite or ascended masters to know personally lest we die. No Gods to…

  • IT is all there is

    Never there was a thought, Only consciousness and ITs awareness. Never there was life or death, Only ITs eternal and timeless presence. Never there was war, peace, famine or plenty, IT has no want, lack or need. Never there was reward or punishment, IT is only experiencing itself, Never there was a past or future, There is only the eternal now,…

  • The Spring Clean

    All that keeps life from being spacious I’m putting into a box And taking to the curb. Let someone else use it. The hand-me-down furniture that I never wanted, Clothes that don’t fit—especially that old robe, All the old knickknacks and souvenirs from the journey, It’s all got to go. Just give me a sunlit room…

  • Nukunu Larsen on The Dark Night of the Soul

    Excerpted from the Podcast, Buddha at the Gas Pump #267 I often talk about the three stages of fear. There is the tangible fear–“I’m scared of dogs.” We can see what it is and we’re scared of it. But there is a more neurotic fear–where we have fear of fear! And often this fear is…

  • Stopping the Mind

    One of the things I’ve always been curious about is how to stop the chatter that’s constantly in my mind. You know, that constant stream of thinking, evaluating, commenting, and back story conversation that’s always going on in the back of the mind? I’ve read many books on the subject and most call this condition “Monkey Mind.” Experts like…

  • Three Administrative Fables

    Let those who have ears to hear–and eyes to see–listen and read these stories of administrators and learn.  May you have the courage of interpretation! Fable 1: The Rock Once there was a powerful Administrator who served an even more rich and powerful king.  (This Administrator was so powerful that he could command that his title…

  • Sparks of Illumination

    The other evening at a lovely lady’s house one of the guest spoke of going to a concert and suddenly getting caught up in the glorious tingling thrill of joy and delight. Her eyes sparkled and she told of it. Everyone could see her tears of reminiscence and knew what a genuine joy she spoke of. Then…

  • The Hierarchy of Idiocy

    I am going to state the obvious here–but maybe do it in a way that you’ve never thought about before.  What I will do is explain for you in a neat and and tidy way the Hierarchy of Idiocy. We all live in a twilight theater of the absurd–a society of idiocy!  Rules and regulations that make…