So, here goes\u2026 If I have time to myself\u2026<\/span> I\u2019m no good at\u2026<\/span> As they say, it\u2019s all been down hill from there.<\/p>\n Movie heaven\u2026<\/span> Comfort eating\u2026<\/span> When I was a child, I wanted to be\u2026<\/span> All my (spare) money goes on\u2026<\/span> At night I dream of\u2026<\/span> My favourite building\u2026<\/span> My biggest regret\u2026<\/span> If I wasn\u2019t me I\u2019d like to be\u2026<\/span> My favourite work of art\u2026<\/span> The soundtrack to my life\u2026<\/span> The best invention ever\u2026<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve seen lots of fill-in-your-own questionnaires on blogs, but never felt the need to toss one on my own blog. Until now. The main reason is Balance. The theoretical discussion of late has been fantastic (my heartfelt thanks to Zen Unbound and Nacho along with others who have chimed in and\/or got us started), but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
I drive\u2026<\/span>
Whatever my parents lend me. When it\u2019s warm, I bike.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m in a place where I can honestly say that nothing is demanded of me that I didn\u2019t choose. So I have a hard time differentiating \u2018me-time\u2019 from anything else. I go to the gym, listen to NPR, listen to Ken Wilber, read (mostly philosophy, but also recently the poetry of Pablo Neruda<\/a>), cook spicy Indian food\u2026
You wouldn\u2019t know it but I\u2019m very good at\u2026<\/span>
1. digital music remixing
2. listening to loved ones
3. cooking (Chinese and Indian food)
4. hosting parties
5. tinkering with electronics and mechanical things<\/span><\/p>\n
1. most social situations
2. meeting new people
3. finding interest in topics outside Buddhism<\/a> and Philosophy (explains 1 and 2)
4. Abiding in the middle way for long (the extremes are just too attractive)
5. Keeping in touch with old friends
A book that changed me\u2026<\/span> (I\u2019ll make it \u2018books\u2019)<\/font><\/span>
<\/span><\/font><\/span>The Stand<\/a> \u2013 Stephen King (age 12)
<\/span>The Celestine Prophesy<\/a> (age 17) (interesting to read the Amazon reviews \u2013 they tear it to shreds \u2013 perhaps I should go back and have a second look at this one)
Dostoevsky\u2019s Crime and Punishment<\/a> (age 19)
The Bible (age 19)
Losing Faith in Faith<\/a> (age 20) (a necessary trauma to the would-be Christian)
The Heart of Understanding<\/a> \u2013 Thich Nhat Hanh (age 20)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n
(looking back) My ex-girlfriend\u2019s bed, a glass of wine, some delivered food and the remote, a snowy day and snuggling. (that being my 30-something ex \u2013 she was the movie buff. I\u2019m less about movies and more about who I\u2019m with. So these days, being single, I don\u2019t watch many movies.)<\/p>\n
Beer (if that counts as \u2018eating\u2019), sometimes chocolate, sometimes french-fries (with cheese if I\u2019m feeling particularly in need).<\/p>\n
a farmer, a witch (I was informed by siblings that I \u2018meant\u2019 warlock), a banker<\/p>\n
As with time, money has little concrete meaning to me. Technically I live on borrowed money, so I can\u2019t call any of it \u2018spare\u2019 (or I can call all of it \u2018spare\u2019).<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t recall many of my dreams. I know I had a reoccurring nightmare when I was in kindergarten, but none since, despite many nightmares and other notable dreams. I should start a dream journal. I\u2019d like to get into lucid dreaming<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The Potala Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Even my biggest mistakes (screwing up the relationship with the Catholic girl<\/a> I dated when I was 19) have brought me to where I am, here, now.<\/p>\n
The Dalai Lama (he giggles soooooo much! I love it!) or Thich Nhat Hanh (peace emanates from his very core, unencumbered by ego as is the case with so many of the rest of us).<\/p>\n
I have this painting<\/a> hanging behind me. I also like Picasso and Van Gogh, Da Vinci and Michelangelo. I also love and admire the many forms of Buddhist art<\/a>.<\/p>\n
It would start off raucous and bold, but hopefully soften a bit, then move into something engaging and thoughtful, though still loud. Hehe\u2026 Maybe Nirvana (the band), then the Japanese flute<\/a>, then perhaps a nice Beethoven concerto<\/a> PLAY THIS LOUD!, it takes some time, but it\u2019s worth it (like me, haha).<\/p>\n
The violin or the printing press.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-113178947965505744?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\")