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letting go…

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:50:34 +0000

ready for his 1st sleepover at a friends house, originally uploaded by mindonly.

Friday night, Ian had his first sleepover at a friends house. He was so excited, but admittedly, I had a bit of a hard time with it. I knew he would be fine, but I just have a hard time letting go sometimes. I know I have to do it – little by little as he grows up; but there really is no better way of learning what attachment means is there.

The Short March to Wisdom: Venerable Yung Dong, Marjorie Jacobs, Peter Martin: Books

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:06:52 +0000

Amazon.com: The Short March to Wisdom (9780971561250): Venerable Yung Dong, Marjorie Jacobs, Peter Martin: Books.

Ian read a few of the stories tonight and we used the discussion topics to talk about each. I love this book and am very happy that he is enjoying it as well. (I’ve been waiting years to read this with him.)

Tonight I sit…

kpost — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:47:57 +0000

tonight I sit
experience a place of no beginning
no effort
we will see where this takes us

Multiple ‘identities’

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:30:27 +0000

Any of you that know me, or follow me somewhere across this internet, likely know that I have multiple sites going. I have all of the usual places; Facebook, Twitter, Posterous, YouTube, Flickr, etc. No big deal. But, I also have this blog http://wateronconcrete.net as well as my ‘Digital Business Card’ site http://kris.freedain.com.

The more I think about this, the less I am ok with keeping both going in their current states. At one point, I saw value it the semi-anonymous aspect of having a separate blog, not tied to my name.

Now, I do like my domain name for the blog, but overall, I don’t have a ‘theme’ for it. The blog really is just events in my life.

considering a change…

Ian meeting Venerable Master Hsing Yun

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:12:06 +0000

I received a wonderful email from Venerable Miao Hsi a couple weeks ago. She let me know that BLTV (Buddha’s Light TV) would be at temple on the 21st to film a story of Hsi Lai. They wanted to begin with children letting go of balloons and right away she thought of Ian. I was humbled and honored they would consider him for inclusion and of course let her know we would be there.

Here is a picture of the film crew getting a still and video shot of the little man

Venerable Master Hsing Yun at Hsi Lai, originally uploaded by mindonly.

After the filming was done, we went to talk to Venerable Miao Hsi and thank her. She let me know Venerable Master would be coming out to take a group picture and we were welcome to be in it. What a day this was turning out to be.

Once the picture was done on the steps of the main shrine everyone was standing with Master and the Venerable who had been assisting the BLTV film crew came over and asked for Ian to please come meet Master. (At this point, Daddy was beside himself.)

I’ll make a side note here; having grown up around the temple, and watching Daddy bow in respect to the many monastics, I believe it may have rubbed off on Ian; something I am thankful of.

As Ian walks up to Venerable Master Hsing Yun, he put his hand on his head just as Ian makes a bow to him. This has such meaning for me, I won’t even attempt to describe it here in words. Just know that my heart swelled…

Venerable Master Hsing Yun is someone I very much admire. He has done countless good for the world, and continues to do so. He is someone I look up to as a great teacher.

Thank you Venerable Master Hsing Yun.

Amitofo.

…joining palms