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Oct.20.2009
words, ideas, thoughts arise and dissolve before i sit to write. i will write that, i imagine, but somehow the moment shifts, time collapses and the paper bears no mark
i have returned from my past back to the present and discovered they are one and the same. my trip was more than, better than i...
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Sep.05.2009
Next Wednesday is lost in time for me. I leave this country on Tuesday evening and arrive some 13 hours later on Thursday morning in the city in which i was born, on a continent in which I have not set foot for nearly nine years.
Probably not only Wednesday will disappear, as I re-orient myself to...
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Jul.22.2009
Heat seeps under the door as you sleep, enters the cracks in the walls, permeates the pores of your skin. It swaddles you in invisible rags that burn at their touch, constricting your breath; you are drowning in air that scalds your lungs as you sink. Heat is a second skin, you feel it against...
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Jul.12.2009
As my mother lay dying, regret often filled the room. The "what ifs" and "wish I hads" emanated from a lifetime of a brilliant, beautiful woman who felt her potential was never realised. Thwarted at times by the men in her life - father refusing to allow her to be a doctor,...
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Jun.11.2009
Nothing much to say. A lapse of inspiration? However, wanted to let all the kind people thinking of Maddie know that she seems to have pulled through whatever mysterious liver ailment had floored her. I haven't taken her back to be re-tested (still paying off the last bill!!), but she is her old,...
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May.13.2009
"It has been said that praying for others is not the least you can do for them, it is the most". Julie Vasquez, Prayer Power.
The collective voice of prayer or wishes of kindness are not defined by geography or time. They are not impeded by landscape or distance. We do not have to be...
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May.03.2009
as a capricorn, my life lurched into intersection with Pluto in recent months. i am not an astrology buff by any means; it is a language unfamiliar to me. yet i do believe that the outer and inner bear witness to one another, are reflections of relationships and responses that involve more than I...
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Apr.26.2009
Keiko and I have been talking language; how language defines us, or is a definition of culture to which we relate. I have been contemplating the many layers, known and unknown, that define my place in the world as I experience it. Unfathomable, really. The most obvious and potent for me is as nun,...
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Apr.22.2009
I went with no intent to this country on the other side of the world. Perhaps the restlessness in my soul swelled up until I could stay in one place no longer. Like a giant helium balloon I moved with the wind across the mountains and sea. Finally, sighting a city, I floated to earth.
Why...
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Apr.09.2009
My name requires a lot of spelling aloud, multiple times. Often, on the phone, there is first a pause, and then "Could you spell that?" Not once, but two or three times. It is understandable; it is not a familiar name here in the west.
It is not the name of my birth; my Australian...
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Apr.02.2009
This is a picture of Mia. Her death was a catalyst for my ordination as a Buddhist nun. That story forms part of a book we are compiling, working title "Loving Your Pet Through Life and Death", about providing palliative/hospice care for your pet at home.
Do you have a story to share?...
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Mar.28.2009
When I awoke yesterday morning, although I did not know it, my world had changed. Across the ocean, in southern India, the great Lama who had with great kindness guided countless people on a pure, unbroken path of Buddhism, had passed away.
His Holiness Penor Rinpoche was probably not as well known...
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Mar.24.2009
We must love language, or we wouldn't be on this site! Well, let me share another site I just disovered, where playing with words can help feed the hungry on this planet www.freerice.com
It's a simple but great idea. You get to play with words - eg test your dictionary knowledge; I quickly...
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Mar.20.2009
Courage is a quality we all have, though sometimes it evades us. Instead we recognise only the shards of fear, in whatever form we know it. Being alone, the dark of night, speaking in public, losing a loved one. Getting out of bed. It can be as simple or complex as the world we live in. The shape...
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Mar.15.2009
Red is the colour I wear most often. The deep rich red, maroon, of the robes of a Buddhist nun. With a hint of yellow, reflecting the wisdom and compassion of our nature.
I stumbled into the red room following a friend, not seen for over two decades. Google opened the door to both, the friendship...
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About Kunzang
I am Australian, and have been living in the wilderness of Northern Arizona for eight years, the first several on my own. I was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun by HH Penor Rinpoche of the Nyingma lineage in 2000.
Writing has been a passion for a long time...
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