If you want to deny or avoid something and have a picnic or vacation instead, you may feel some short-term relief, but the problem will remain. So instead of doing that, if you penetrate into the suffering or the tragedy and see its nature with some perspective, your mental attitude will improve, and you will …
Category: Written
Jul 01 2009
Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times (Part I)
I was over at a friend’s house yesterday, and I saw something on her refrigerator door. It was a small of Buddhist proverbs relating to difficult times and tough situations. At first I didn’t pay much attention to any of the writings, but instead opened the door and got some ice out of the freezer. …
Jun 28 2009
OpenBox3 HOWTO goes “official”
I just received word from Josh that the OpenBox3 HOWTO that I started writing quite a while back is now in the official Gentoo documentation repository! Josh went through and made some changes to the draft version, and as far as I can tell, they were: Commented out ~arch applications in order to stick with …
Thought for the Moment
