The Dacha

Friday, August 6, 2010

Week 44, EP365

It's hard to believe, only 8 weeks left to go! Here's Week 44 of EP 365!

Day 301 July 30, 2010
Flutterby

Day 302 July 31, 2010
Just a Shell

Day 303 August 1, 2010
New Beginnings

Day 304 August 2, 2010
Playin' Chicken

Day 305 August 3, 2010
Black Eye'ds

Day 306 August 4, 2010
Shooting Joel

Day 307 August 5, 2010
Abandoned

Week 43, EP365

Ten Weeks to go! Here's Week 43 of EP365!

Day 294 July 23, 2010
Grillmeister in Training

Day 295 July 24, 2010
Heat

Day 296 July 25, 2010
Blue Hour

Day 297 July 26, 2010
Resting

Day 298 July 27, 2010
Old Kaolin

Day 299 July 28, 2010
WOW Marathoner

Day 300 July 29, 2010
Wind in Motion

Week 42, EP 365

The end is getting closer and closer!!

Here's Week 42 of EP 365!

Day 287 July 16, 2010
Mimi's Angel

Day 288 July 17, 2010
Handmaking Pine Baskets

Day 289 July 18, 2010
Wings

Day 290 July 19, 2010
Mt. Ranier Cherries

Day 291 July 20, 2010
Bricks and Mortar

Day 292 July 21, 2010
Under the Tree

Day 293 July 22, 2010
Leaves

Monday, July 19, 2010

I love it when my spiritual worlds- Christianity and Buddhism- come together.

Every morning in my email, I receive the Rigpa Glimpse of the Day. Reading it first thing every day gives me a tool to use as I go about my day.

I haven't written much about my Buddhist studies and how Buddhism manages to help me integrate my Christian beliefs into everyday life. Some day I will, but for now, I wanted to share today's Rigpa message.

I am REALLY uneasy about asking ANYONE for help. Whether it's to hang a picture, support a cause, or to clean up the kitchen. I wonder why that is? I'll get back to you on that, but I have a feeling it lies in my need/insistence for self-perfection, my fear of not being "liked", and ultimately, my ego.

Wow- what a way to start Monday.

Anyway, here's today's Glimpse. I'd love to read YOUR take on it!!!

"All we need to do to receive direct help is to ask. Didn’t Christ also say: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. Everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth”? And yet asking is what we find hardest. Many of us, I feel, hardly know how to ask. Sometimes it is because we are arrogant, sometimes because we are unwilling to seek help, sometimes because we are lazy, and sometimes because our minds are so busy with questions, distractions, and confusion that the simplicity of asking does not occur to us.

The turning point in any healing of alcoholics or drug addicts is when they admit their illness and ask for aid. In one way or another, we are all addicts of samsara; the moment when help can come for us is when we admit our addiction and simply ask."