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The three kiss-offs, Uncategorized / June 27, 2021 / Leave a comment

Stephen Dunn, poet

This morning’s New York Times includes the obituary for the poet Stephen Dunn. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/books/stephen-dunn-poet-dead.html  Even though I’m not reading much…

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The three kiss-offs / April 23, 2015 / Leave a comment

Thinking can be dangerous to your health

A number of posts in this blog have mentioned the irony that Laura’s brain cancer first struck in the left…

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The three kiss-offs / November 4, 2014 / Leave a comment

I’ll be glad when the midterm elections are done so we can talk about Ebola without bouncing between defending incompetence and exploiting fear.

If you spend too much time on social media, you might get whipsawed between two opposing narratives about Ebola in…

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The three kiss-offs / October 22, 2014 / Leave a comment

Suffering may not be inevitable, but that doesn’t make it optional.

I kicked up a bit of a firestorm this summer when I questioned Jon Kabat-Zinn’s saying: “Pain is inevitable; suffering…

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The three kiss-offs / August 11, 2014 / 1 Comment

Skillfully

Buddhists call questions that lead towards ending suffering “skillful.” Methods that lead to an end of suffering are “skillful means.” …

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The three kiss-offs / August 10, 2014 / 1 Comment

When do we begin to hurt?

When I posted “Pain, sensation, suffering and self” on my Tricycle blog, I introduced it with the question, “When does…

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The three kiss-offs / August 9, 2014 / 2 Comments

Misery’s shadow

Religions teach us to blame ourselves for our suffering in a number of ways. It is true that part of healing…

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The three kiss-offs / August 8, 2014 / 3 Comments

Pain, sensation, suffering and self

“Pain is a sensation, and as such, is impersonal. Pain leads to suffering when it is seen as ‘my’ pain….

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The three kiss-offs / August 6, 2014 / 1 Comment

One more comment on “optional”

The exchange about “pain is inevitable; suffering is optional” included in the last post took place on the Community section of…

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The three kiss-offs / August 6, 2014 / Leave a comment

Exchange on suffering is optional?

The post challenging the saying “Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional” gave rise to a lively exchange of comments.  The…

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