Monthly Archives: June, 2009

Getting to the Essential: Developing an Aspect of the Candle – Lemon

In my last post, Not Your Grandmother’s Flan: Breaking with Tradition – An Inspiration I typed about an inspirational smell, I also mention attempting to create that scent in a candle.  This article I mention trying to create just one aspect of the candle scent. –DV – There is particular aspect of myself that I [...]

Not Your Grandmother’s Flan: Breaking with Tradition – An Inspiration

I should have known I was on to something as soon as the smells wafted up to my nose.  It was a warm smell that closed my eyes and reached the tip of my brain. The smell was not new to me, it seemed all too familiar.  It seemed also seemed like pure comfort in [...]

Another Timely Find: The Spectrum of Buddhist Practice in the West

Thanks to one of my twitter friends, c4chaos, I came upon a description of some of the differences in Buddhism beliefs for some of the prevalent forms of Buddhism: The Spectrum of Buddhist Practice in the West – by B. Alan Wallace. A Timely Find Recently, during some chatting with friends on the topic of [...]

Found a Really Good Post and Blog– Gandhi Wisdom

I stepped away from my template writing, CSS learning, and PHP tweaking to catch up on my various on-line reading.  After a day in the sun yesterday, over doing it, and putting my body in a major ache state, I thought some reading was the perfect thing to do along with some other less physical [...]

Discussion Notes June 23 – Hardcore Zen – Why Gene Simmons is not a Zen Master, The World of Demons, In My Next Life I Want to Come Back as a Pair of Lucy Liu’s Panties

We are winding down it seems for the summer.  Only two more weeks and a talk with the Stevie stands between us an a break from Buddhism.  If you are reading this log, please send any feed back to us with your thoughts. This week’s flow brought to you by the following poets: Dogen Coldstream, [...]

Welcome to Skillful Means Version 4 – Building a WordPress Theme from Scratch

Four is the version number I have assigned to what you are seeing before you.  The thing that makes Skillful Means it’s various shapes and colors is something called a WordPress Template (or theme).  Other than some glitches you may see, there really shouldn’t be a tremendous change visually to how Skillful Means looks. But [...]

Discussion Notes June 16th – Hardcore Zen – If Only…, The Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra, Don’t Worry it will Come with Enlightenment

This weeks book chapters were greeted with some good and bad feedback.  And dang… I forgot the pictures This week’s discourse brought to you by the following : Dogen Coldstream, Solari Georgia, Renwick Tomsen, stevenaia Michinaga, and me. [18:04] : Dogen Coldstream sounds the friendship bell… [18:04] : A reminder to be… mindful… [18:05] Dharma [...]

So many problems for such a little blog…

First, I stripped the CSS, then I rebuilt the template, then I changed some PHP, then I fought with IE… I added additional sidebars, my super dooper template allows for four different wigetized sidebars.  I haven’t written my own WordPress plugin yet, but I did hack this Amazon book lookup plugin to do my bidding. [...]

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