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MY NATURE-INSIGHT BLOG
Although starting this blog as a personal diary recording development, it has now become more of a description of my journey. On the way I make mistakes, and I try to go back to correct them; it is important to me that you note the warnings. Please read the journey that is part of all our journeys. The blog is now archived. I originaly termed it my Buddhist-Spirit blog because I oscillated between the two, now there is no oscillation in Nature's Insights blog.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX AND THEMES

As of 31/12/07 there are 71 blogs. To make some kind of sense for you and for me I have put them together in alphabetical order (but do note the date). It is difficult but there are comon themes throughout the blog so you can connect them that way. Here are the themes, click on them to see what they mean:-

ACIM, Anatta, Ajaan Buddhahasa, Buddhism, Engagement, Growth, Health, Insight, Integrity, Intellect, Internet, Macrobiotics, Meditation, Mindfulness, Nature, Pirsig, Science, Thay, Vedana

DATE

TITLE

THEME
12/02/07

ACIM has started with God

ACIM
31/12/07

Addiction

Anatta, Health, Buddhism
26/02/07

AI vs Meditation

Meditation
01/06/07

Bangkok Mindfulness

Mindfulness, Thay
11/12/07

Being Magga

Buddhism
29/08/07

Blogging, Internet and Engagement

Internet, Engagement
03/06/08

Chi and Emotions

Emotion
03/09/07

Clinging to the World

Anatta, Buddhism
21/12/07

Cognitive Macrobiotic Development

Growth, Health, Macrobiotic
21/02/07

Compromised

ACIM, Anatta
26/07/07

Concerning the 60s

Intellect, Meditation
16/08/08

The Conformity of Institutions

Institutions
02/09/07

Context of Internet Dilemma

Engagement, Internet
29/11/06

Detachment dominated

Anatta, Buddhism
11/01/08

Dhammasakkachas

Not blogged
01/03/07

Dharmakaya

Buddhism, Thay
03/03/07

Dharmakaya is Evolution

Buddhism, Nature, Thay
17/02/07

Dialogues

Engagement, Intellect, Thay
06/09/08

Diet Intuition - Role of Meditation

Meditation, Insight
08/01/08

A difficult day with self

Anatta, self-review
28/12/06

Disentanglement and Engagement

Engagement
05/11/06

Eclecticism

Intellect, Integrity
10/11/06

Emotional Blocks

Health, Vedana
15/08/08

Enabling Love of KuanYin

Kuan Yin, compassion
02/01/08

Even the Little Things

Anatta, Magga
17/08/07

First Person Methodology and Qualitative Research

Science
16/11/07

Food and the birth of a blog

Health, Macrobiotics
21/02/07

Fresh Start and Quick Fixes

ACIM, Anatta, Thay
21/02/07

Glamour

Anatta
21/07/07

Going Back Online

Internet
20/11/08

Ground Zero

Internet
16/06/08

Home - About Men and Women

Home, Evolution
20/01/08

How does self operate?

Anatta, engaged, path
08/01/07

How much do we learn unconsciously?

Growth
04/09/07

Human Development

Growth
27/12/06

I am a teacher

Education
08/07/08

Ideas, Individual Revolution, Perfect Democracy

Nature
6/11/08

On Insight

Insight
12/12/07

Integrating mind and body - avoidng traps of doctrine

Integrity, Intellect
22/09/07

It is not all wonderful

Vedana
21/01/08

Kaya as self

Anatta, health
26/12/06

Kicking into ACIM

ACIM
02/02/07

Macro Thoughts

Buddhism, NOT macrobiotics
17/12/07

Macrobiotic Philosophy

Macrobiotics
18/12/07

Mb Philosophy Addendum

Macrobiotics
27/07/07

Materialist Conspiracy vs Virtue

Integrity
24/03/08

Marjoe

Religious Experience, intellect
01/02/07

Meditation can be a fix?

Meditation
11/03/07

Meditation Knock

Meditation
26/07/08

Microcosmic Orbit Meditation

Meditation
24/06/07

Mindfulness - Early Years

Buddhism, Mindfulness
27/06/07

Mindfulness - Understanding the Channel

Buddhism, Mindfulness
23/07/07

More about S

Intellect
29/06/07

My own ego and S

Anatta, Intellect
02/06/07

My Spiritual Day

Buddhism
6/11/07

Nature and Buddhism

Buddhism, Nature
24/09/07

Nature's head

Nature
25/03/08

No-self - less blog activity

Anatta
10/10/07

No Self following self-indulgence

Anatta
30/06/08

One Mind and Religious Tolerance

Anatta
11/10/07

One Religion

One Religion
16/02/07

Part of God's Mind

ACIM
21/07/07

Pirsig Again - - Warning!

Pirsig
10/03/07

Plant Allergy

Health
22/02/07

Post ACIM

ACIM
04/01/08

Power of Addicted Self

Anatta, Intellect
10/07/07

Procreation first, then love

Nature
11/02/08

The Quandary of Addiction

Addiction, Magga
26/03/07

Response to S

Buddhism, Insight, Intellect
26/07/08

Revising My Daily Eating

Nature Health, Self meditation
04/02/08

Right Livelihood - Ethical Money

Engagement
26/03/07

S

Intellect
2/12/07

Samsara

Buddhism, Kamma
13/11/06

Sati Overcomes Attachment

Anatta, Mindfulness
28/06/07

Scientific Materialism and the S factor

Intellect, science
19/01/08

Self-Awareness and Control

Anatta
2/12/06

Sila - the only way

Integrity
03/12/06

Sila - the only way to social order

Integrity
07/02/08

Slipped

Addiction, Path
11/07/08

On Social Responsibility

Social Responsibility, home and workplace
18/07/08

The Spectrum of Mind, Energy and Body

Meditation, chi
05/03/07

Stored Stress

Health, Vedana
26/03/08

Surrender

Anatta
29/8/07

Tabula Rasa of the 60s

Intellect
23/07/07

Talking about the Body

Health
16/01/07

This ACIM is trying

ACIM
06/08/08

On thoughts and feelings

Vedana
14/04/08

Transmutation - the human processor

Meditation
05/06/08

Trust

Trust
11/01/08

Trying to understand the self in kaya

anatta, health
01/10/07

Trying to work on Vedana

Vedana
27/01/08

Turning Point J

Path
31/08/07

Two Paths and the Drink

Anatta, Buddhism, Health
07/01/08

two selves or one?

Anatta, mindfulness, Magga
16/07/07

Understanding Stress

Health, Vedana
19/11/07

Understanding Yin-Yang

Macrobiotics
17/08/07

Universe in a Single Atom

Buddhism, Science
12/10/08

Unnatural Animals

Buddhism, Science
26/03/07

Update

Education, Health
21/02/07

Warning against ACIM

ACIM
17/08/07

Western Education - Hollow Core

Education, Growth, Intellect
19/02/07

What Burdens do we carry?

Health, Vedana
28/02/07

What is insight?

Insight
02/02/07

Zukav's Love and Peace Chakras

Growth, Health

ACIM is A Course in Miracles. Many people told me to look at this, and I spent a while trying it. In the end I decided it is dangerous so if you insist on looking at what I said about the course please read the warning first. Back

Anatta is the doctrine of no-self, attachment creates self. Anatta enshrines detachment. Back

For a long period this last year I had been reading Ajaan Buddhadhasa, he has greatly influenced me. I would have to reread all the blogs to make sure I included all the times I referred to him but I have included some as themes. Back

This blog oscillates between Buddhism and spirituality, fundametall describing insights. If I am any religion I am Buddhist so everything is concerned with Buddhism. Those blogs more directly concerned with the meaning of Buddhism or Buddhist terminology I have themed "Buddhism".Back

How important is it to be actively involved, have engagement in life? Discussed. Back

Throughout I became concerned with a developmental model for human growth. This is also covered in my education blog Matriellez. Back

. Health was a common theme until eventually I devoted a blog to it - My Nature Health Blog. Throughout there are references to stress and emotion and the way they have affected me, until eventually I started macrobiotics. Back
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As with Buddhism the purpose of this blog is insights. Where I have discussed insight itself I have themed it.Back
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Integrity, or sila in Pali, is essential to have control in life. Back
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Having been through the education mill and then being a teacher the power of intellect becomes noticeably important - way beyond its capability. Discussing this egotism has been common.Back
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As most of my engagement is through the internet, I have blogged about it several times. Back
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Although I have a health theme and a Nature Health blog, this is a specific macrobiotics theme.Back
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Without meditation there is no blog because there is no journey. Exaggeration, as Nature finds a way, but meditation is the simplest way. Where I have discussed meditation it is themed. Back
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Mindfulness, or Sati in Pali, is very important on the Path and is discussed often.Back
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UnderstandingNature is the key to this blog. It is synonymous with the Dhamma. Back
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Pirsig, as in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, was a seminal work for me. I referred to it often throughout my life, but on rereading itcand blogging m reading I determined that such intellect going astray was dangerous and I warned about it. Back

Understanding science or knowledge comes up often, usually with the intellect misdirecting it. Back

Thich Naht Hahn, known as Thay, impressed me a great deal. I saw him in Bangkok, and his thinking affected my blogging. Back
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Feelings and emotions, Vedana in Pali, have become stored as stress and blocks. This is really a subsection of health but I have themed it. Back