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Craig is a guy from Tibet, Tennessee, USA

recluse; born NYC, ex-international development (NGO) worker, vegan, musician, father of six, lover of wilderness and high places.

I keep an irregular blog, a Buddhist website, Twitter a Yahoo group called PADMA and am married to Tonyadechen. You can hear some of our buddhist rock&roll right here.

  • http://ncrcafe.org/node/2335

    Rated Dec 17 2008 • 1 review • buddhism, christianity, spirituality • ncrcafe.org

    "Here I come with a noise out of the woods, something to say for Christmas... the wise men are on the way, and the shepherds, and our own childhood. And it will be Christmas again, with all the invisible grace of His coming, His revolution. We do not understand that this business about the crib is the real revolution that once for all turned everything upside-down so that nothing has ever been, or can ever be, the same again. But we try hard to sing the 'old song' instead of the new one: the song of war, of money, of power, of success, of having a good time: when it is really all much simpler than that. Life is much more fun when you don't have to have a good time or force anybody to do anything or put anything across."

    -Father Thomas Merton
    (Dec. 20, 1962)
    104 views
    http://ncrcafe.org/node/2335

  • Bachs Mass in B Minor as Musical Icon

    Rated Oct 30 2008 • 1 review • christianity, music • nau.edu

    "I tell you now that, while it is certainly a great work of art, the B Minor demands that one approach it not merely as art, but as icon--a religious object crafted for the purpose of divine worship and instruction. In the words of Christoph Wolff, the composer himself saw his Mass as "the supreme opportunity to unite his creed as a Christian with his creed as a musician in a single statement." By "icon" I do not mean that twaddling sense in which the word has come to be used of late. I use the word, rather, in its historical sense, especially as it is represented in one of the richest and most varied traditions in art history, that of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. We have all seen these icons, with their wide eyes, tilted heads, halos, vivid colors, and piously folded hands. I am talking about a type of art expressive of a people capable of devotion so profound as to be practically incomprehensible to the western mind."
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    Bachs Mass in B Minor as Musical Icon

  • Medieval Sourcebook: Rimbert: Life of Anskar, Apostle of...

    Rated Oct 25 2008 • 1 review • christianity, history, religion • fordham.edu

    "In the east, where the light rises, was a marvellous brightness, an unapproachable light of unlimited and excessive brilliance, in which was included every splendid colour and everything delightful to the eye. All the ranks of the saints, who stood round rejoicing, derived their happiness therefrom. The brightness was of so great extent that I could see neither beginning nor end thereof.

    When I was able to look round both far and near amidst the unending light, I could not see what was within, but saw only, the outside edge; nevertheless, I believed that He was there concerning whom Peter said, "on whom the angels desire to look."
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    Medieval Sourcebook: Rimbert: Life of Anskar, Apostle of the Nth

  • inJesus.com | Jim Bramlett

    Reviewed Oct 20 2008 • 29 reviews • christianity • injesus.com

    Think McCain comes off like an idiot? Its only because they are doing voodoo to mess with his mind in Kenya. Reminds me of the 'crazy McCain Campaign lady' in the red shirt who didn't trust Obama because 'HE'S AN ARAB.' This article states that Obama is 75% Arab, in spite of his mother being a white girl from Kansas. Incredible; amazingly sincere and deeply delusional.
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    inJesus.com | Jim Bramlett

  • INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES: Anthony de Mello

    Rated Oct 19 2008 • 9 reviews • buddhism, christianity, spirituality, consciousness • elsajoy.com

    "Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

    *****

    You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion -- are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare."
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    INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES: Anthony de Mello

  • http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom/wisdom_index.htm

    Rated Aug 12 2006 • 1 review • christianity, religion • bedegriffiths.com

    Some forms of Christianity are far more attractive and psychedelic than others. Anything associated with Bede Griffiths is usually worth checking out.
    303 views
    http://www.bedegriffiths.com/wisdom/wisdom_index.htm

  • The Gospel of Thomas Collection -- Translations and...

    Rated Aug 12 2006 • 4 reviews • christianity, religion • gnosis.org

    The Gospel of Thomas
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    The Gospel of Thomas Collection -- Translations and Resources

  • www.PracticeGodsPresence.com: Home of Brother Lawrences...

    Rated Jul 07 2006 • 1 review • christianity • practicegodspresence.com

    The Practice Of The Presence Of God

    Brother Lawrence's Conversations and Letters
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    www.PracticeGodsPresence.com: Home of Brother Lawrences The Practice of the Presence of God, Reflections on Practicing Gods Presence and The Gospels Of Matthew, Luke, Mark, andJohn

  • http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/demise.html

    Rated Mar 01 2006 • 1 review • christianity, ancient history • upenn.edu

    THE DEMISE OF PAGANISM


    Where Christianity differed crucially from Judaism, from a Roman's point of view, was in its proselytizing spirit. Christians held not only that theirs was the only acceptable form of worship, but that it was incumbent upon all mankind to accept the tenets of their creed. For -- and this is the central point -- those beliefs were not merely useful, probable, or edifying: they were completely and absolutely true. Christianity possessed a privileged narrative of the salvation history of mankind as a whole; and it was the duty of Christians to bring that story to the unconverted world, to reproach unbelievers with their sin and ignorance. Christianity was thus always, from an official point of view, an uncivilized kind of religion, taking itself too seriously, and threatening the placidity with which society pursued, none too energetically, its religious destiny.
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    http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/demise.html

  • http://www.equip.org/free/DB404.htm

    Rated Dec 29 2005 • 2 reviews • buddhism, christianity • equip.org

    THE GOOD HEART:
    A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus

    an interesting and fair-minded review of HHDL's book
    written by a Christian of Japanese descent
    32 views
    http://www.equip.org/free/DB404.htm