The Dalai Lama within us

As this blog unfolds, it will be obvious that the Dalai Lama is not THE Dalai Lama, but someone who has the Dalai Lama qualities.  He’s a combination of mythology, spirituality, religion, and a keen professor from Miami of Ohio, who we call the Dalai Lama.

We called him Dalai Lama for several reasons – he was bright, calm, loving, balanced, and he practiced his craft.  He wasn’t someone to one person and someone else to another person – and, he could spot the fakes a mile away.  But, his alignment was not to judge, but to focus on what he could do – many times ignoring what others would have trouble ignoring.

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Good Deeds, Carrots & Christians Part 4 – “Can a Christian be an Existentialist?” and, “Can an Existentialist be a Christian?”

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/good-deeds-carrots-christians-part-4-can-a-christian-be-an-existentialist-and-can-an/article_b28c770c-fac7-57bc-8363-acdb98f8ad5b.html

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Looking Out for Happiness

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/looking-out-for-happiness/article_55455c7d-95eb-59c2-b6e9-557c00266289.html

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Good Deeds, Carrots & Christians Part 3 – The Dangling Carrot: Transactional Christianity Vs. Authentic Goodness

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/good-deeds-carrots-christians-part-3-the-dangling-carrot-transactional-christianity-vs-authentic-goodness/article_7b53c4f8-0e44-51c2-87ef-f1fad8ceba10.html

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When History Whispers Instead of Shouts

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/when-history-whispers-instead-of-shouts/article_46e0febb-4120-577f-bd71-8b0fc0c04880.html

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Good Deeds, Carrots & Christians Part 2 – Heave, Here and Now: Rethinking “On Earth as it is in Heaven”

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/good-deeds-carrots-christians-2-heaven-here-and-now-rethinking-on-earth-as-it-is/article_c84579c0-2aa0-51d2-a632-6257e24ff01c.html

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Gambling in Sports

I must not be a real man … gambling in sports is baffling to me … especially at this type of granulation.

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Good Deeds, Carrots & Christians Part 1 – What Does It Mean to be an Existentialist? And Why It Matters to Christians

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/good-deeds-carrots-christians-part-1-what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-existentialist-and/article_664d7b90-7056-5be2-8554-88154ccdce97.html

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A Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/the-hero-with-a-thousand-faces-by-joseph-campbell/article_0cd8d4bb-6db8-53a3-82b6-a631bd913bcd.html

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Good Deeds, Carrots & Christians – Series Introduction

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/good-deeds-carrots-christians-series-introduction/article_d7113b55-0cce-5389-b376-4624f219f12e.html

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Is the Bible Worthless? – Part 5: When Quoting Scripture Hurts More than it Helps

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/is-the-bible-worthless-part-5-when-quoting-scripture-hurts-more-than-it-helps/article_da7974e8-fc7a-57e6-91d0-86566f89e061.html

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Blessed are the Bike Riders

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Playing to Win, or How You Play the Game

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/playing-to-win-or-how-you-play-the-game/article_2b044576-113b-5f37-8f99-962a0535f8bd.html

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Is the Bible Worthless? – Part 4: The Gospels Don’t Match – and That’s the Point

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/is-the-bible-worthless-part-4-the-gospels-don-t-match-and-that-s-the/article_fb385e5b-ba34-54ef-b505-9cf498b7cd83.html

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Why We Only Notice Taxes When Something Goes Wrong

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/why-we-only-notice-taxes-when-something-goes-wrong/article_897fc3f9-b068-5322-a34a-894fc5374145.html

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Is the Bible Worthless? – Part 3: Out of Context – The Bible’s Most Misused Moments

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/is-the-bible-worthless-part-3-out-of-context-the-bible-s-most-misused-moments/article_bb681f5a-db25-5b28-b9ed-9ca80daa6c04.html

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Is the Bible Worthless? – Part 2: When the Bible Debates Itself

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/is-the-bible-worthless-part-2-when-the-bible-debates-itself/article_ae701576-89ef-545d-a215-592c693fbe81.html

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Fox News Investigation on Nation’s Common Ancestor

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What are churches on a Shipwrecked Island?

A shipwrecked man is rescued from a deserted island after 10 years alone. He gives the rescuers a tour of the island before they all sail back to civilization. “This building is where I live. And this building is where I go to church,” he says. “And that building over there is where I used to go to church.”

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America First and the Question Jesus Still Asks

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/america-first-and-the-question-jesus-still-asks/article_5118e4f3-c335-5634-89d2-b40d7d139955.html

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New Year’s Eve Puns

“Mr. Original” “Side-Splitter”

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Is The Bible Worthless? Part 1: Never Trust a Person Who Quotes Scripture

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/is-the-bible-worthless-part-1-never-trust-a-person-who-quotes-scripture/article_5f4e272d-45f2-5379-be19-ece94f366b62.html

I’ve never been so happy to have an error of mine pointed out … in the article, I say “Paul debates Paul” when in fact James wrote “faith without works is dead”. So, it should read Paul debates James. PERFECT! The challenge to the “person who quotes scripture”!!! I am humbled, honored to have been read, and ecstatic to have been corrected! Thanks to a guy named Paul … really.

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How to Spot a Bot

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/how-to-spot-a-bot-and-why-it-matters-more-than-you-think/article_318ef694-8eb9-5fe7-a973-b56fc2a99401.html

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Anecdotal Living Part 6: Breaking the Anecdotal Cycle

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/anecdotal-living-part-6-breaking-the-anecdotal-cycle/article_b2ecc738-f993-5e58-8272-ecaf5f48fadd.html

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We are Better than the Memes We Share

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/we-are-better-than-the-memes-we-share/article_73ee3da3-a4f5-5e68-958a-c49afd38bf0e.html

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Anecdotal Living Part 5: What We Think We Know about Neighborhoods

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/anecdotal-living-part-5-what-we-think-we-know-about-neighborhoods/article_fb8c9122-66c4-5c24-8f1e-e22719314870.html

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Have you found Jesus?

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Anecdotal Living Part 4: Church Hurt and the Exit Wound

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/anecdotal-living-part-4-church-hurt-and-the-exit-wound/article_c41df89b-63dc-50bd-8281-9b1343b7fd1c.html

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The Enlightenment Cycle

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Why the World Calls it 2025

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/why-the-world-calls-it-2025/article_ab0d8831-f4e2-5663-9408-d9170a6d3310.html

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Anecdotal Living Part 3: Welfare, Waste, and the Cadillac Myth

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/anecdotal-living-part-3-welfare-waste-and-the-cadillac-myth/article_6e0b099e-6243-5bf8-bafd-7b0b415cb106.html

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