In honour of Pluto going direct on 11 September 2009, I thought I’d share some thoughts about Donna Cunningham’s book, Healing Pluto Problems, whose title I’ve borrowed for the title of this post.
I picked up this book on Neith’s recommendation. It is not as heavy-going as Judy Hall’s Hades Moon, which I’ve written about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘book’
Healing Pluto Problems
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Compassion, Death, Desire, Fear, Meditation, tagged book, honesty, Pluto, Pluto in Capricorn on 7 September 2009 | 6 Comments »
Down the (rabbit) hole
Posted in Death, Poetry, tagged book, repetition compulsion on 13 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came across this poem in Sogyal Rinpoche’s The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (1992) (Will say more about the book another time).
Buddha-field
Posted in Buddhism, Sangha, tagged book, buddha-field, Vimalakirti on 8 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
I thought I’ll take a break from my Hades Moon for a bit.
My Buddhist group is currently studying The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture (alternatively known as the
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra). We covered Chapter One* last week called ‘The Purification of the Buddha-field’, which led to a discussion of what that ‘buddha-field’ might [...]
Hades Moon
Posted in Astrology, tagged book, Pluto, Pluto-Moon on 24 May 2009 | 6 Comments »
I spent this new moon in Gemini (quincunx Pluto) weekend reading Judy Hall’s
Hades Moon: Pluto in Aspect to the Moon
. The book is powerful and carries a strong Plutonian aura. While I was (am) very drawn to it, I had to put it down a number of times and actually go into short, [...]
Doing enlightenment
Posted in Practice, Zen, tagged book, Brad Warner, Dogen on 11 May 2009 | 3 Comments »
I just finished reading Brad Warner’s Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate. He has an easy, conversational style and I managed to finish it in about a day and a half.
Basically Warner presents a no-nonsense view of life as a Zen teacher and cuts through the hypocrisy of the construction of Zen practice [...]
Sheldon Kopp’s Eschatological Laundry List
Posted in Awareness, Thinking, tagged book, Sheldon Kopp on 8 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the end of his book, If You Meet Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!, Sheldon Kopp offers ‘A Partial Register of the 927 (or was it 928?) Eternal Truths’, 43 items in total. This list exists elsewhere on the World Wide Web, but still worth reproducing here:
