Author Archives: billybaba
JANUARY 26, WEDNESDAY
BARCELONA, LA RAMBLAS 2015 Today would have been my first day wandering Barcelona for eight days before flying to Marrakech and Essouria, Morocco. I came within an inch of flying yesterday. If I had been informed that my ticket wouldn’t
JANUARY 26, WEDNESDAY
BARCELONA, LA RAMBLAS 2015 Today would have been my first day wandering Barcelona for eight days before flying to Marrakech and Essouria, Morocco. I came within an inch of flying yesterday. If I had been informed that my ticket wouldn’t
JANUARY 25, TUESDAY
CONCENTRATION Long ago I saw a film on Buddhism, I forget the name, I think it was on PBS, but what I remember most distinctly is a section in which a Buddhist monk did a kind of walking meditation in
JANUARY 25, TUESDAY
CONCENTRATION Long ago I saw a film on Buddhism, I forget the name, I think it was on PBS, but what I remember most distinctly is a section in which a Buddhist monk did a kind of walking meditation in
JANUARY 24, MONDAY
SRI SOMESVARA TEMPLE, MOUNT SOMA, BUNCOMBE COUNTY Today Todd, Susie and I went in search of the Shiva temple that we had heard about from a variety of people in Greensboro and an Indian gas station attendant on the way
JANUARY 24, MONDAY
SRI SOMESVARA TEMPLE, MOUNT SOMA, BUNCOMBE COUNTY Today Todd, Susie and I went in search of the Shiva temple that we had heard about from a variety of people in Greensboro and an Indian gas station attendant on the way
JANUARY 23, SUNDAY
REMEMBERING INDIA Almost every second year from 1970 on I have made a trip to India with a Warren Wilson College student or staff group or sometimes others. Since I retired in 2007 I have gone every other year with
JANUARY 23, SUNDAY
REMEMBERING INDIA Almost every second year from 1970 on I have made a trip to India with a Warren Wilson College student or staff group or sometimes others. Since I retired in 2007 I have gone every other year with
JANUARY 22, SATURDAY
INDIVIDUALISM AND LONELINESS I want to write a short post about loneliness and togetherness. The very odd thing for me is that very often when we, as Americans, are constantly with people we have a great need to be alone.
JANUARY 22, SATURDAY
INDIVIDUALISM AND LONELINESS I want to write a short post about loneliness and togetherness. The very odd thing for me is that very often when we, as Americans, are constantly with people we have a great need to be alone.
JANUARY 21, FRIDAY
DUKKHA, NOT A GOOD FIT When Joseph Goldstein defined Dukkha, suffering, in his Buddhist podcast whether I mentioned a couple of days ago I had a pretty good idea of what he was talking about. I have a sense of
JANUARY 21, FRIDAY
DUKKHA, NOT A GOOD FIT When Joseph Goldstein defined Dukkha, suffering, in his Buddhist podcast whether I mentioned a couple of days ago I had a pretty good idea of what he was talking about. I have a sense of
JANUARY 20, THURSDAY
WHO AM I? Joseph Goldstein‘s podcast on Dukkha got me to thinking. He said that under the Bo tree Buddha realized that everything is transient and that attachement to people and objects can only bring Dukkha, sometimes called suffering. He
JANUARY 20, THURSDAY
WHO AM I? Joseph Goldstein‘s podcast on Dukkha got me to thinking. He said that under the Bo tree Buddha realized that everything is transient and that attachement to people and objects can only bring Dukkha, sometimes called suffering. He
JANUARY 19, WEDNESDAY
WARREN WILSON STYLE 2007 These are a few of the photographs of students taken in 2007, my last year as a teacher before retiring. I photographed students wearing whatever they wanted to as an example of Warren Wilson Style 2007.
JANUARY 19, WEDNESDAY
WARREN WILSON STYLE 2007 These are a few of the photographs of students taken in 2007, my last year as a teacher before retiring. I photographed students wearing whatever they wanted to as an example of Warren Wilson Style 2007.
JANUARY 18, TUESDAY
DUKKHA AND DINOSAURS I thought this post would be simple but it has gotten me more and more confused. A few days ago I listened to a podcast on Dukkha on the Be Here Now webpage where there are a
JANUARY 18, TUESDAY
DUKKHA AND DINOSAURS I thought this post would be simple but it has gotten me more and more confused. A few days ago I listened to a podcast on Dukkha on the Be Here Now webpage where there are a
JANUARY 17, MONDAY
SUNSET MOUNTAIN After the snow, suddenly the sun came out and it warmed up for a day, warm enough to eat outside at Liberty Cafe with Susie and then to go for a walk on Sunset Mountain. Sunset Mountain is
JANUARY 17, MONDAY
SUNSET MOUNTAIN After the snow, suddenly the sun came out and it warmed up for a day, warm enough to eat outside at Liberty Cafe with Susie and then to go for a walk on Sunset Mountain. Sunset Mountain is
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 