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From Haight Ashbury to Silk Road, I Always Miss the Fun! by Charles Carreon October 6, 2013 http://rapeutation.com/punklawyer.haightashbury1_small.jpg I got to Haight Ashbury in 1968. The Summer of Love was 1967. I couldn’t help it. I rushed. I was only twelve when I ran away, but run I did, to whe...

Who’s Zenning Who?: Another View on Whether Susan Blackmore’s Sermon on the Way of Robotic Consciousness Was Worth Spending A Beautiful Morning Indoors With A Band of Aging Atheists One Day in Late April in Tucson, Arizona, 2014 by Charles Carreon May 3, 2014 Sunday With the Atheists http://rapeuta...

THE WOODSHED Halpern found the Sakyong at his favorite sulking-spot, sitting on a stack of lumber out behind an outbuilding where he could get away and nip on a bottle of Pinot Noir. The Sakyong looked up at him, giving him the stink-eye. Halpern set down his briefcase, hiked up his pants a little,...

CRISIS CONTROL Spears on the Horizon The Sakyong has a bad dream that visits him again and again. He sees an army on the border at dawn, their spears glinting in the morning rays, piercing the fiery horizon. War has come to the kingdom, and he turns to pull a sword from the wall. Then he wakens, an...

The Kingdom Collapse: Not-a-Fan Fiction by Charles Carreon June 16, 2019 PREFACE No one can really know the truth about what's going on in the collapsing Kalapa Kingdom. Silence has fallen over the royal palace, and the coming and going of supplicants has been replaced by the jawing and scheming of...

There is a lesson for everyone in Penor Rinpoche's recognition of Steven Seagal as "Chundrag Dorje," a Nyingma terton who discovered ritual objects, sacred pigments, and hidden teachings over a hundred years ago, and remains a revered saint in the Palyul Nyingma pantheon of which Penor Rinpoche is t...

Some might say that without revelation there is no religion or spirituality, because spiritual wisdom cannot arise from the human mind. Wisdom must descend from a higher sphere, or it is not wisdom. According to this view, the Buddha was a divine being who took rebirth in the earthly plane to impar...

Anyone attempting to research the concept of Buddhist Enlightenment using the Internet will run into a small problem – the term “Enlightenment” is already owned by the Western Europeans, who so christened their culture’s emergence from the Dark Ages of Catholic scholasticism into the bright day of ...

The Story Starts in Oaxaca The first time I heard about Chogyam Trungpa was from Newcomb Greenleaf, when Tara and I visited him for a couple of weeks at his home in Austin, Texas, summer of 1974. I had met Newcomb in Oaxaca the summer before, where I was travelling with my brother his last free sum...

There is a tradition among professional tricksters to tell you first what they are going to do to you. But people always think they're talking about someone else, not themselves. People generally proceed on the assumption of goodwill, even when they've been warned not to. For example, the police of...