David Given Schwarm

Sliding Doors

I watched this on Saturday night with Lisa on Netflix. I thought it was fantastic–a simple tale about the life not lived, the path not taken, the opportunities missed, but what sets it apart is the end–when the Easy Happy life dies and the rewards from the life of struggle are so strong. I really…

The Wild Hunt

I started watching this on Netflix early in the morning, but the kids got up so I had to stop. I finished watching this on the couch with Lisa. The movie is a Canadian LARP film so I expected a lot of humor and nerd shenanigans–I did not expect sledge hammers to the head, bloody…

Red Book 9

Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.

42. The Girl Comes Out from Meditation

In the time of Buddha Shakyamuni, Manjusri went to the assemblage of the Buddhas. When he arrived there, the conference was over and each Buddha had returned to his own Buddha-land. Only one girl was yet unmoved in deep meditation. Manjusri asked Buddha Shakyamuni how it was possible for this girl to reach this state,…

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Tenth Annotation. The tenth: When he who is giving the Exercises perceives that he who is receiving them is assaulted and tempted under the appearance of good, then it is proper to instruct him about the Rules of the Second Week already mentioned. For, ordinarily, the enemy of human nature tempts under the appearance of…