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Have a Beautiful Thanksgiving. I am Grateful.
<p>I am Grateful for my life, Grateful for my health, Grateful for the love in my heart. </p><p>For the beauty all around me, the food upon my table, and the light that shines in my Soul.</p><p>I am Grateful for you all, so that I can continue to create music that you find valuable in your life.</p><p>Have a beautiful Thanksgiving!</p><p>Buddy Comfort<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/391776/0e2afbe745bfd66aaabd7e859fa10bb0da926ee0/original/20190624-180357.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p>Buddy Comfort</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/7291605
2023-10-21T13:16:29-07:00
2023-10-24T08:22:12-07:00
I’m about to reissue my long out of print popular first album. “Buddy Comfort - Mythical Beauty”.
<p>Good news! </p><p>I’m about to reissue my long out of print popular first album. “Buddy Comfort - Mythical Beauty”.</p><p>It was released in 1981 on the Hearts of Space label as their first offering.</p><p><strong>Buddy Comfort – Mythical Beauty</strong> - <strong>By Anna Turner and Stephen Hill</strong></p><p>"Two things set this cassette apart from all else we offer. First it’s an album of songs rather than instrumental music: second, we recorded and produced ourselves, the only release to date on the HEARTS OF SPACE label. You’d expect us to be biased about this album, and here’s why.</p><p>Buddy Comfort is a pure and caring soul who lives among the redwood trees, has an absolutely gorgeous voice, and is a very accomplished musician and songwriter. Of all the singers we’ve encountered in our area in the last ten years, Buddy has consistently moved us the most.</p><p>Basically a folk artist and balladeer, his songs have an expanded frame of reference in time and space we call “Cosmic Folk.” His subjects are not yesterday’s news; nor is he concerned with simple nostalgia for our lost 19<sup>th</sup> century whatever.</p><p>Rather, he looks deeper and farther – to the age of myth, the kingdom of nature and sky. Stephen Davis of New Age Magazine called this album “lovely and heartfelt, holding a torch for mythic romance and a child’s reverence for the earth.”</p><p>In 1981 we invited Buddy to join us for a special concert-on-the-air. His performance that day was so fine that we found we had captured six of the songs on this album. The rest were carefully recorded in our studio and <i><strong>Buddy Comfort, Mythical Beauty </strong></i>is the result, a tender combination of sensitive lyrics with acoustic guitar, viola, flute, and soprano sax.</p><p>If you loved early Joni Mitchell or Judy Collins albums and mourned their “progress” you will find a kindred spirit in Buddy Comfort.</p><p><i>Galadriel, Everybody Loves the Sky, All the Seasons of Your Heart, Spring Song, Moon Over Valley House, Angels in Embryo, Any Tree With a Bird in It, If I Were a Bird, Swallow, Keepers of the Garden."</i></p><p>I’m playing guitar and singing along with my friends, Stephen “Huzur’ Coughlin on soprano sax and flutes, and Lorraine ”Lorrie” Hunt on viola.</p><p>This all-acoustic album is now being remastered to make it sound even better for you.</p><p>I’m excited to make this album available again after so much time.</p><p>Will let you know when it’s ready. </p><p>Cheers, Buddy</p><p> </p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/7227671
2023-06-16T09:37:46-07:00
2023-10-16T07:56:21-07:00
“The world is a mess. What can I do to change it?”
<p><span>A friend once said to me “The world is a mess". Then asked, "What can I do to change it?”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>I answered:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span> I can only live the most full and rich life that I can by participating in it, not by being just an observer. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Garth Brooks once wrote in a song;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>“I could have missed the pain</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>But I’ve had had to miss the dance”.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>I can choose to be honest with myself, own what is mine, bear witness, speak my truth, choose my challenges wisely, and above all else do no harm.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>I can only change the world by changing my own life and living it in the way that I want to see the world manifest. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>All is held in the consciousness of infinity which is comprised of the myriad of all individual consciousness within it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>Malvina Reynolds once sang, “One and one and one and one makes a million.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>Later I read this in the Tao Te Ching (translated by Stephen Mitchell):</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>“Do you want to improve the world?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>I don’t think it can be done.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>The world is sacred.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>It can’t be improved.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>There is a time for being ahead,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>A time for being behind;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>A time for being in motion,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>A time for being at rest;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>A time for being vigorous,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>A time for being exhausted;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>A time for being safe,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>A time for being in danger.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>The Master sees things as they are,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>without trying to control them.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>She lets them go their own way,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span>and resides in the center of the circle.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p><span>What do you think?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/7155948
2023-02-17T10:39:06-08:00
2023-02-19T08:46:15-08:00
May Peace Prevail on Earth
<p><span>May all conflicts within each individual, family, clan, community, country and the planet be quieted.</span></p><p><span>May the music in our hearts and souls be shared across all waters to bring our Global Family together in peace and joyful harmony.</span></p><p><span>May all barriers to true understanding be dissolved. And may we hear the wisdom that each one has to share. May we listen without fear or judgment, in truth in the Spirit of compassion, love and grace.</span></p><p><span>Please say the word “peace” in your own language.</span></p><p><span>May “peace “prevail on Earth. </span></p><p><span>May “peace” become a permanent resident on Earth.</span></p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/391776/e4d573734a771f7a29850754778014965e1f8c0b/original/in-safe-hands.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p><p> </p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/7130412
2022-12-30T11:51:34-08:00
2022-12-30T20:05:03-08:00
What On Earth Are We Eating?
<p>During a retreat at Esalen Institute Alan Watts was asked what type of diet he followed. Since he was a philosopher of eastern thought and a man of wisdom, some guessed, perhaps it might be a macrobiotic or vegetarian diet. His reply was. “I only eat three kinds of foods; the gourmet cooking of the French, Chinese and Japanese.” Who knew? </p>
<p>To have clear and accurate communication with each other, it is important to understand the definitions and the correct usage of words. For example in Italian, pesca means peach, and pesce means fish. In Rome, I once ordered pesce gelato. </p>
<p>What about the words: meat eater, carnivore, herbivore, folivore, omnivore, vegetarian, and vegan as they relate to the world of what we choose to eat and wear? </p>
<p> In the world of food we all seem pretty clear about herbavore and carnivore (plant eater and meat eater). Carnivores are critters like tyranasaurus rex, lions, tigers and ardvaarks. Herbavores are critters like brontosaurus, antelope, deer, koala bears, rabbits, and guanacos. </p>
<p>There are also omnivores that eat whatever is available so that they may survive. Omnivores eat foods from any source. A bear might eat berries and salmon, or a bird might eat fruits and insects. A human might forage at a local buffet. Humans, who have omnivore teeth, were once hunters and gatherers before the agrarian and industrial eras. </p>
<p>If you already know this stuff please bear (no pun intended) with me. </p>
<p>The most confusion about words seems to dwell with what humans are now eating: Are you a vegan, vegetarian, etc.? </p>
<p>A vegetarian’s diet could consist of vegetables, seaweed, roots, legumes, seeds, grains, nuts, and fruits prepared in imaginative ways. </p>
<p>A meat eater’s diet could consist of creatures such as cows, sheep, goats, deer, pigs, or chicken, hens, and pheasants. Then there is seafood from tuna and squid to crabs and clams all prepared in imaginative ways. </p>
<p>If you eat any kind of animal, you are a carnivore (or an omnivore), not a vegetarian as some may think. </p>
<p>If you eat, as I do, plants then you are a vegetarian. However, I also eat dairy and eggs. I am an ovo-lacto vegetarian. </p>
<p>If I only ate plants and nothing that is derived from animals, such as honey, bee pollen, dairy, and eggs, than I would be a vegan. </p>
<p>Most vegans also, do not choose to wear or use anything that is derived from animals such as silk, leather, feathers (down), and furs. </p>
<p>Bees and butterflies only live on nectar and provide the service of pollination as a gift. Unfortunately, we humans can’t do this. </p>
<p> Which category do you fall into? All of this is making me very hungry.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/391776/2b81cc347b9e35125d56cd717ed331bf1b30d1b3/original/beflower-by-bc.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/7036781
2022-08-12T13:07:44-07:00
2022-08-12T13:07:45-07:00
“I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days…” Kabir
<p>“I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days…” Kabir </p>
<p>I've spent much of my life, especially when I was younger, just sitting and looking, or just sitting or lying down listening. Just sitting by a stream and being in the sound and movement of the moment of the water. Just being, listening to human music and nature sounds; sacred choral, Bach cello, joyful birds, feathers moving in air, rustlings, crickets, frogs, the sigh of a dog. a fish bubble, wind in the grasses, silence. </p>
<p>Many clouds and melodies have gone by since I was born.</p>
<p> Buddy Comfort</p>
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tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6983676
2022-05-31T12:56:26-07:00
2023-06-19T09:28:16-07:00
I Know You're Real
<p>Here's a video by the group Gunhill Road. I'd really like to share it with you. It's about how life is inextricably connected here on Earth on the inner and the outer dimensions.</p><p>"I Know You're Real" </p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIbOsKBz6og">I Know You're Real (Spoken Version) by Gunhill Road - YouTube</a> </p><p>Enjoy, </p><p>Buddy</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6912559
2022-03-03T08:41:20-08:00
2022-03-03T08:41:20-08:00
Weapons are the tools of violence. All decent men detest them.
<p>Weapons are the tools of violence; </p>
<p>All decent men detest them. </p>
<p>Weapons are the tools of fear: </p>
<p>A decent man will avoid them </p>
<p>Except in the direst necessity </p>
<p>And, if compelled, will use them </p>
<p>only with the utmost restraint. </p>
<p>Peace is the highest value. </p>
<p>If the peace has been shattered, </p>
<p>how can he be content? </p>
<p>His enemies are not demons, </p>
<p>but human beings like himself. </p>
<p>He doesn’t wish them personal harm. </p>
<p>Nor does he rejoice in victory. </p>
<p>How could he rejoice in victory </p>
<p>And delight in the slaughter of men? </p>
<p>He enters a battle gravely, </p>
<p>With sorrow and great compassion, </p>
<p>As if he were attending a funeral. </p>
<p> From the “Tao Te Ching” translated by Stephen Mitchell</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6850839
2021-12-24T08:45:05-08:00
2021-12-24T08:48:10-08:00
May The Spirit of the Season
<p>May the Loving Spirit of the Season Dwell In your Hearts every moment of the year.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/391776/2594e2fc6ecc91139f739218372f3bc0d5411f30/original/buddy-with-santa.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p> </p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6843046
2021-12-16T09:08:35-08:00
2021-12-16T10:10:13-08:00
Winter Solstice Message
<p>As the shortest day in this hemisphere approaches with the winter solstice </p>
<p>I feel myself being still and reflecting upon where I am in my life physically, emotionally and with Spirit.</p>
<p>I feel myself on the promontory of earth spinning through space, the passage of time, and the possibilities of myself to heal that which troubles me. </p>
<p>I pray that in these sacred times for each one, that peace of mind and heart and vibrant health will prevail around our precious blue green planet. </p>
<p>May the forests be restored. May the air be clean, all waters clear and free flowing, the soil unpolluted and uncontaminated and our food be natural, pure and wholesome. </p>
<p>That we grow to listen to each other with compassion and clarity and that we tell ourselves the truth and be responsible for what we express and what we create in this shared physical reality. </p>
<p>May all be awake, loving, kind, fair and seek no harm to self or others. </p>
<p>May all have all we need to thrive, and recognize and be content with that which is enough.</p>
<p>May we be in gratitude, and in the spirit of sharing and serving others.</p>
<p>May I be given the inspiration to create more music that enriches the lives of others.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/391776/76318c4af48c374a227cb47e75138565592b9f93/original/seascape-monterey-bay-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6698477
2021-07-26T10:11:56-07:00
2023-06-18T17:19:26-07:00
New Species of Bear
<p>As the arctic north pole ice begins to recede more and more each summer in its hemisphere, the wild creatures there have been forced to make unprecedented adjustments to survive. </p><p>Polar bears who rely on the ice fields to hunt and raise their young, have been challenged more each year to swim longer distances between the scattered floating ice that remains. </p><p> With the melting of the permafrost the polar bear and northern grizzly populations are now coming into closer contact. There has been a mating of the two species. </p><p>What shall they be called in the popular vernacular? Groler bears or pizzly bears? </p><p>What do you think?</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6618273
2021-04-30T11:10:38-07:00
2023-06-18T17:17:34-07:00
The Sanity of Humanity
<p>In Nature's wild places lies the preservation of the sanity of humankind. It is our responsibility as human beings to insure that preservation. To insure that preservation, not only for ourselves but for all life on Earth.</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6597019
2021-04-07T10:21:50-07:00
2023-06-19T09:20:45-07:00
Illusion Illumination, Tolkien, and the Garden of Eden
<p>Someone asked, ‘what do you mean by?’ “Every sound we make creates a new universe of itself, perhaps brief to us, but eternal to those within it” </p><p>What I want to share is: it is important to create beautiful, spherical, rich, warm, loving sounds. Sounds that reverberate their love, beauty, peace, harmony, light, and joy throughout this creation, parallel creations, and all new creations. So that this becomes the nature of the creation and all who dwell within it. </p><p>In J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Silmarillion” the first chapter explores the original intention of the Creator to do this through his musical work. Then appears the element of the ‘other’, which attempts to overpower and change the direction and nature of the original composition with its dissonance and chaos. </p><p>However, the Creator embraces this discord and weaves it into the larger grander composition. </p><p>Striving to be separate and dominant through sound, the self-seeking efforts of ‘the ego driven suffering other’ reveal the subsequent seeming dualistic nature of our own universe. </p><p>When Adam and Eve partook of the apple from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they transformed their awareness. </p><p>from all is one in the Garden to awareness of separation and duality. </p><p>In Zen teaching - all is all. When you are being your all is zazen. Mountains are mountains. You are you. One creation is manifested when all parts know they are one creation. </p><p>The dualistic becomes seen as maya or illusion and is the substance of our own suffering. Becoming free of attachment to the endeavors that separate ends suffering. </p><p>This dance of illusion continues eternally until all awaken in the Garden of timelessness as One.</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6559467
2021-02-26T08:43:00-08:00
2021-02-26T08:44:36-08:00
Eight sentences that can change the world: the power of the spoken chanted word
<p>May I be Well <br>May I be Happy <br>May I know Love <br>May I know Peace </p>
<p>May you be Well <br>May you be Happy <br>May you know Love <br>May you know Peace </p>
<p>Start out by holding your right hand over the center of your chest, then place your left hand over your right one and gently hug your chest. Then say the above sentences. Think of yourself as you say the "May I ..." Think first of a loved one as you say the "May you..." Then to cleanse your heart, think of someone who has caused you pain or distress and repeat the "May you..." </p>
<p>The Buddha tells us – What we think we become.</p>
<p>from Khenpo Karten Rinpoche www.ManjushriDharmaCenter.org</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6535713
2021-01-31T11:22:44-08:00
2021-04-29T09:05:46-07:00
And They Awoke in The Garden
<p>And they awoke in the garden that was invoked through the prayers statements and whisperings of “I love you” from the humans to the plants every morning, afternoon, and evening for thousands of years. </p>
<p>The vibrancy of the life in all that was there was palpable and felt by anyone sitting in this paradise of greens; every hue of green and blue with overtones of purple and violet. Yellow light was coursing through the veins of all growing living entities and reflected in the golden throats of warblers, nightingales, meadowlarks, mockingbirds, sparrows, phoebes and thrushes. </p>
<p>All fragrances of night blooming jasmine, lilacs, wisteria, roses, willows, redwoods, bay laurel, pines, wild sage, and sweet grasses blended in an ever changing wafting of scents from the most indiscernible to the threshold of olfactory ecstasy. </p>
<p>The soft moist air caressed the cheeks of any who entered there. </p>
<p>All these touches, colors, fragrances and sounds blended in nourishment for the body mind and soul-spirit. </p>
<p>It was a place that felt like home, was home to any soul who entered there and it was only natural and filled with ease that it was so. </p>
<p>For it was the energetic presence of love from and in all hearts that allowed it, manifested and sustained it. </p>
<p>Healing was native to this place, and joy was its gift to all. </p>
<p>All was nourished by pure waters bubbling up from filtering aquafers that had stored the pure rains that fell through the pristine air. </p>
<p>I have been telling the only plant in my window that I love her every day. She told me all of these things I have been telling you. She has been telling me she likes the very first light in the morning and the very last light in the evening as well as the all day sun. Her new shoots and leaves and her vibrant growth are her statement to my senses, and a testimony to this. </p>
<p>- Buddy Comfort – Pacific Grove - 1-31-21</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6511656
2021-01-01T08:45:53-08:00
2022-05-30T22:56:28-07:00
Let It Begin
<p>A milestone, a shibboleth, a guidepost, a reminder of the passage of illusory time is here again. </p>
<p>Let’s envision and create a life for ourselves, families, communities and the world: that embraces compassion, love, truth, fairness, peace, respect for all life, play, creativity and wonder in the mystery. </p>
<p>Embracing nature’s wisdom balance with healthy expanding forests, pristine oceans, lakes and rivers, clean food, soil, water and air, wholeness, sustainable living, health and prosperity for all in all ways here on our blue green jewel of a planet. </p>
<p>A message from Paramahansa Yogananda: </p>
<p> “Let us forget the sorrows of the past and make up our mind not to dwell on them in the New Year. With determination and unflinching will, let us renew our lives, our good habits, and our successes. If the past year has been hopelessly bad, the New Year must be hopefully good.” </p>
<p>“With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open, and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.”</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6492436
2020-12-05T09:28:24-08:00
2023-06-18T17:11:08-07:00
Musicians from around the world playing together on 'The Weight" by Robbie Robertson.
<p>Here is a link to a music video with Ringo Starr, Robbie Robertson and musicians from around the world playing "The Weight": (Playing for Change):</p><p>It's a good prototype for a vision of cooperation. Music is, indeed, the universal language. I would like to believe that people who care, have creativity, compassion, an open heart, an attitude of working and playing together, sharing and giving are in the majority on the planet (especially the children).</p><p>copy and (paste in your browser) https://youtu.be/ph1GU1qQ1zQ</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6472703
2020-11-08T08:38:11-08:00
2020-12-13T09:11:47-08:00
Make Me An Instrument of Thy Peace
<p><span class="font_large">The Prayer of St. Francis </span></p>
<p>Lord make me an instrument of thy peace, </p>
<p>Where there is hatred let me so love. </p>
<p>Where there is injury, pardon </p>
<p>Where there is doubt, faith </p>
<p>Where there is despair, hope </p>
<p>And where there is darkness, light. </p>
<p>Where there is sadness, sadness joy. </p>
<p>Oh Divine Master grant that I may not </p>
<p>So much seek to be consoled as to console. </p>
<p>To be understood as to understand </p>
<p>To be loved as to love. </p>
<p>For it’s in giving that we receive </p>
<p>And it’s in pardoning that we are pardoned. </p>
<p>And it’s in dying that we are born into eternal light. </p>
<p>Oh, Lord make me an instrument, make me an instrument </p>
<p>Of thy peace, of thy peace.</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6467978
2020-11-01T11:29:56-08:00
2023-06-19T09:13:55-07:00
What If You Knew Someone Who...?
<p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who lied all the time about most things to make you think he accomplished something he did not, or had certain attributes which he did not. Or repeated the same lie hundreds of times in the media to get you to believe something that definitely was not true. Or says something about someone else that is cruel and not true simply because they questioned his integrity. And if questioned about the untruth or insult said, “I didn’t say that” or “I was only kidding”. (This is called a pathological liar.) </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who didn’t care about you or your needs at all, but only cared about what he can get for himself no matter the cost to others and his community, his country or the world? (this is called a sociopath). </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who only cared about looking good and being admired and in the spotlight and would lie, cheat and steal to stay there? (this is called a narcissist). </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who looked down upon and insulted certain groups of people, and encouraged hatred and violence against them? (this is called a racist and white supremacist) . </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who really didn’t respect women, and felt the right to grope them whenever he wanted. Or would insult them and cause them to lose their jobs if they stood up for themselves. What if you knew someone who would have sex with call girls while his wife was in the hospital giving birth to his child? (this is called a misogynist). </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who was given $400 million dollars by his daddy, yet who went bankrupt so many times that the banks wouldn’t lend him any money for his construction projects and ventures. Someone who then turned to wealthy Russian oligarchs to get the money in return for laundering money illegally for them. What if you knew someone who didn’t pay contractors on his construction projects who provided services to him in good faith. But he made false claims against them so he wouldn’t have to pay them. (this is called an inept business man) Someone who his own personal attorney characterized as “a mobster”. </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who if he didn’t get his way would threaten, coerce and try to destroy his opponent (this is called a bully). </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who would never admit that he was wrong or take responsibility for or apologize for things he had done, but consistently blames others instead. Someone who is not interested in any kind of honest self-assessment and healthy personal growth. </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who doesn’t believe that the earth’s climate is changing in the face of overwhelming global scientific consensus about; increasing worldwide droughts, floods, violent hurricanes, tornados and storms, record breaking fires, melting ice caps and glaciers, and the hottest summers on record in both hemispheres. Who claims to not believe because it would harm the profits of his benefactors in the coal, oil, gas and other fossil fuel industries. Who also uses his power to dismantle treaties, agencies and strategies that would intelligently meet this crisis and begin to reverse the tragic impacts. </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who with knowledge of a global pandemic (COVID-19) took no preemptive action and pretended it didn’t exist. Who began to dismantle the agencies and discredit the physicians who are established and capable of mobilizing to meet this crisis. Someone who let it spread, sicken and kill millions of people in this country alone. </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone who took an oath of office to uphold and preserve the Constitution of the USA yet has systematically been knowingly engaged to destroy it. </span></p><p><span class="text-big">What if you knew someone in the most powerful office on the planet who claims to know everything about everything that he needs to yet is in fact ignorant and not interested in learning anything about what it takes to be that person with that power. </span></p><p><span class="text-big">(All this this is called a criminal). </span></p><p><span class="text-big">This is only a small part of the story. </span></p><p><span class="text-big">His name is Donald Trump. Much of this has happened while he has been president, a representative, of the people of the United States of America. </span></p><p><span class="text-big">This is all because Donald Trump comes first, everything else is secondary and of no importance. What he would be most interested in, is becoming America’s first Dictator. </span></p><p><span class="text-big">Why on earth would anyone want to vote for someone like that? </span></p><p><span class="text-big"> --Buddy Comfort--</span></p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6441516
2020-09-23T19:42:18-07:00
2020-10-13T17:23:59-07:00
All might seem overwhelming right now.
<p><span class="font_regular">All might seem overwhelming right now. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">We will surely miss the judicial brilliance and courageous heart that was Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She was the embodiment of what a Supreme court justice should be or strive to be. Replacing her will be impossible without time and much scrutiny. It is an insult to all that is decent that Trump and McConnell are only interested in their own power. That they are ram-rodding mediocrity in the form of their own ideology, through in haste. </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Let us pray about it from the deepest most sincere heartfelt place within us: </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">“I pray that all branches of the United States government: The <strong>Executive; </strong>president, vice president, cabinet members including the attorney general, the <strong>Legislative</strong>; House and Senate, including the leaders of the Senate, and the <strong>Judiciary</strong>; federal courts and Supreme court – </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Be guided to uphold Democracy. To safeguard Democracy with a conscience, letting go of all coveting of personal power, wealth and self-aggrandizement - </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">in truth, light, fairness, equality, true justice, compassion, caring about the common good, and commitment to uphold and preserve this government of the people, by the people and for the people. Remove all obstacles to a free and fair election in November of 2020, and into the future." </span></p>
<p><span class="font_regular">Above all keep your connection to Source.</span></p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6409825
2020-08-14T15:27:52-07:00
2020-09-11T16:11:06-07:00
In The Tempest of Life
<p style="text-align: center;">A poem to share:</p>
<p>In the tempest of life </p>
<p>When the wild ego unfurls its sails </p>
<p>Ripe with holes, </p>
<p>Will the soul’s awareness crew </p>
<p>Patch them or abandon ship, </p>
<p>Trusting in the warmth of new waters, </p>
<p>The presence of dolphins, </p>
<p>And the absence of sharks? </p>
<p>For all the times we learn and unlearn experiences </p>
<p>We form a view of what we think the world is like, </p>
<p>And our sense of self becomes dependent </p>
<p>Upon addictions to air, water, mother’s milk, </p>
<p>Later sugar, numbness drugs, and ego aggrandizing stimulants. </p>
<p>Do we stop to take the essential breath, </p>
<p>And contemplate where we sit and what is next </p>
<p>In this moment of life </p>
<p>Guided by bigger hands and farther vision? </p>
<p>Can I say, “I am content with what I have”? </p>
<p>Or do I always want something different and more? </p>
<p>Where does the restlessness land me </p>
<p>Except in endless circles of desire </p>
<p>And judgment of self and others. </p>
<p>Knowing these things, </p>
<p>In a moment </p>
<p>Can be abandoned </p>
<p>In pursuit of something. </p>
<p>Addiction’s whim, wanting desire. </p>
<p>Buddy Comfort</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6404565
2020-08-07T11:01:15-07:00
2023-06-18T16:37:01-07:00
Questions of the day
<p>To a cat one of the most pressing questions is “What happened to your lap when you stood up?” The answer might be “It became a shoulder, so I’ll go there”. </p><p>A query by the Mad Hatter in C.S. Lewis’ classic story was “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” One can imagine all sorts of similarities (black ink in inkwell, raven’s black quill…) However, when this question was posed to an alien computer in an episode of Star Trek, the alien computer crashed! </p><p>The question today is “What is keeping me from my peace of heart and peace of mind?”</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6398437
2020-07-31T10:14:48-07:00
2023-06-19T09:18:16-07:00
To bring peace to your being and joy to your life.
<p>In the mystic spiral of God’s beautiful nature, </p><p>Is the balance and joy of singing waters. </p><p>May you hear these wonders and choirs of angels, </p><p>To bring peace to your being and joy to your life.</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6361409
2020-06-21T11:01:26-07:00
2020-09-17T12:17:28-07:00
Affirmation for looking into the eyes of illness
<p><span class="font_regular">This came to me one morning and I want to share it with you:</span></p>
<p><span class="font_large">"All the cells of my body are regenerating according to their original life-filled, vibrant, and perfect blueprint."</span></p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6353887
2020-06-15T08:41:09-07:00
2021-04-21T10:05:13-07:00
Animal Communication Continued
<p> A story to share: </p>
<p>It was a cold, grey and drizzling day at the Los Angeles zoo. There was a monkey all by itself on a long ledge shivering. On the same ledge a little farther down were two tree sloths huddled together to keep warm. </p>
<p>I thought to myself, and the monkey "scoot over and snuggle with the sloths to keep warm" <br>Just then the monkey started to inch toward the sloths. He got within an inch and stopped. Then he warily moved and made contact. The sloth nearest to him opened one eye looked and closed it again. The monkey settled in and sighed, a little warmer for it.</p>
<p>It seems there is a choice at any moment in life. To close my heart and shut down in fear, or open up in love and trust. Takes a lot of courage.</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6320054
2020-05-17T11:38:43-07:00
2020-05-22T09:39:54-07:00
Turn,Turn,Turn
<p> </p>
<p>To everything turn, turn, turn </p>
<p>There is a season turn, turn, turn </p>
<p>And a time to every purpose under heaven. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>A time to be born, a time to die </p>
<p>A time to laugh, a time to weep </p>
<p>A time to mourn, a time to dance </p>
<p>A time to plant, a time to reap. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>To everything turn, turn, turn </p>
<p>There is a season turn, turn, turn </p>
<p>And a time to every purpose under heaven. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>A time to rend, a time to mend </p>
<p>A time to gain, a time to lose </p>
<p>A time to cast away stones, </p>
<p>A time to gather stones together. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>To everything turn, turn, turn </p>
<p>There is a season turn, turn, turn </p>
<p>And a time to every purpose under heaven. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>A time to give it all you have </p>
<p>A time to take it through the fire </p>
<p>A time to let go and let God </p>
<p>A time to master your desire. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>To everything turn, turn, turn </p>
<p>There is a season turn, turn, turn </p>
<p>And a time to every purpose under heaven. </p>
<p> </p>
<p> --From Ecclesiastes – melody by Pete Seeger </p>
<p> Revised with new verse – Buddy Comfort © ---</p>
<p> </p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6319516
2020-05-16T17:30:46-07:00
2023-06-18T16:34:34-07:00
THE WORLD WILL ALWAYS BE LIKE THIS
<p><span class="text-big">“Don’t expect the whole world to be enlightened one day. It would be like walking into a Detroit automobile factory and seeing only finished cars. If the factory were full of finished cars, it would no longer be a factory; it would become a showroom. Likewise, you wouldn’t go to a university and say “When will the only people here be degree holders?” </span></p><p><span class="text-big">The universe itself is a university. People come as students; they study and learn. A few people get their diplomas and walk out.. The world will always be like this. Don’t think that one day the whole world will be enlightened. It is not possible. </span></p><p><span class="text-big">There will always be people who are still learning. When you understand the world, and realize your own true nature, you get the diploma. When others see you enjoying the peace and joy of having acquired that diploma, they will be inspired by you and will work hard to get one. That is the world.” </span></p><p><span class="text-big"> -Swami Satchidananda- “The Golden Present”</span></p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6131436
2014-12-05T09:00:00-08:00
2023-06-18T16:33:15-07:00
George Harrison and the Tao Te Ching
<p>I was reading a passage from the Tao Te Ching and was reminded of a song by George Harrison, “The Inner Light”.</p><p>I listened to it again and discovered that George was probably reading the same passage and was inspired to write the song.</p><p><strong>Tao Te Ching (47</strong>) translated by Stephen Mitchell</p><p>Without opening your door</p><p>you can open your heart to the world.</p><p>Without looking out your window</p><p>you can see the essence of the Tao.</p><p> </p><p>The more you know</p><p>the less you understand.</p><p> </p><p>The Master arrives without leaving,</p><p>sees the light without looking,</p><p>achieves without doing a thing.</p><p> </p><p><strong>The Inner Light</strong></p><p>George Harrison</p><p>“The Beatles Past Masters Volume Two”</p><p> </p><p>Without going out of my door</p><p>I can know all things on earth.</p><p>Without looking out of my window</p><p>I can know the ways of heaven.</p><p> </p><p>The farther one travels</p><p>The less one knows.</p><p>The less one really knows.</p><p> </p><p>Without going out of your door</p><p>You can know all things on earth.</p><p>Without looking out of your window</p><p>You can know the ways of heaven.</p><p> </p><p>The farther one travels</p><p>The less one knows.</p><p>The less one really knows.</p><p> </p><p>Arrive without traveling.</p><p>See all without looking. Do all without doing. </p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6131435
2014-12-03T00:00:00-08:00
2020-09-11T16:10:39-07:00
Animal Communication
<p>Reading “Kinship With All Life” by J. Allen Boone again after many years. I am seeing it through new eyes and understanding the depth of what he is teaching about animal communication.</p>
<p> It begins with his relationship with Strongheart, a German shepherd movie star, and what this noble intelligent dog taught him. …”behind every object which the senses can identify, whether the object be human, animal, tree, mountain, plant or anything else, and right where the object seems to be, is the mental and spiritual <em>fact </em>functioning in all its completeness and perfection. This spiritual fact cannot be recognized with ordinary human eyesight, but it is always apparent to clarified inner vision.”</p>
<p> To learn how to communicate with animals requires practicing getting out of the way and suspending projections, expectations and superior/inferior conditioning. Being in a larger context of the universal consciousness and the flow of subtle images or thoughts back and forth between two beings that are part of this larger context. And to know that everything from the smallest subatomic reality to the entire universe is made of the same stuff that can be perceived through a sense beyond the 5 senses that normally compose our perceiving and being in the world. </p>
<p> It takes practice, preferably with another critter that you have formed a bond with. This is impeding me (self perceived) from continuing on because all of my dog and cat companions have passed on years ago.</p>
<p> I suppose I can chose a critter at random, or be chosen by them in passing. Harder to know how accurate the passing ephemeral messages might be. A class or a new companion with whom I have a loving bond would make this process easier.</p>
<p> Love to know your own experiences about this.</p>
<p> </p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6131434
2013-11-27T00:00:00-08:00
2023-06-19T09:15:43-07:00
Something to Embrace for this Holiday Season and Always
<p>There are so many misalignments brought on in so many ways by the old structure holding on for dear life to its power and selfishly obtained wealth. Worshiping in the temple of what no longer serves us.<br><br>I’d like to focus on what we are creating:</p><p>“We have met the enemy and they are us” (Pogo).</p><p>“I am you, and you are me, and we are all together” (The Beatles).</p><p>“God in me, as me, is me”</p><p>“Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.”</p><p>"We cannot simultaneously prepare for peace and war at the same time" (Albert Einstein)</p><p>"There is only one person I can change in this life. That is myself. No one else"</p><p>"Peace through music"</p><p>Let’s help each other row across this ocean of life in this short time we have from birth to death (this time around) so the quality of life for all is fully embraced in wholeness of life, light, harmony, love, compassion, forgiveness, abundance, gratitude, grace, beauty and peace.<br> </p><p>I affirm today that everyone on Earth will awaken from their sleeping and embrace this and all illumined visions. </p><p> </p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6131432
2011-03-26T04:00:00-07:00
2023-06-18T07:20:01-07:00
I Believe in the Human Heart
<p>I believe in the human heart as the center fire of our spiritual existence in a human body on the earth plane. </p><p>That as we all breathe to live, these are our common connections around the globe. </p><p>In the peaceful centered mind in our hearts breathing in gratitude we connect with our common source, which has many names. </p><p>And through this prayerfulness we can reach others in compassion and hold them safely and guide our way to peace upon the earth in the winds of grace.</p><p>I believe in walking the beauty way in service to others and singing universal songs and chants to bring all together in peace, joy, love, beauty and light.</p><p> </p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6131433
2010-12-24T03:00:00-08:00
2023-06-18T07:34:29-07:00
Peace is a state of the heart
<p>Peace is a state of the heart that is steady when all that rushes in from the mind of the worldly pulls us and distracts us from that which is inherently ours. </p><p>A connection with the Divine, the Universal, the stillness that is always available to us if we but remember to follow the breath as it comes in and goes out.</p><p>Watch the breath’s independent ebbing and flowing to connect our bodies, hearts and minds with the unlimited present. </p><p>It is knowing that now between the past and future is all that is real, is expandable and accessible if we but take the time to sit, to be, to connect with Source in love and beauty in the silence. </p><p>The stilled and quiet mind can manifest peace in this dimension.</p>
Buddy-Comfort
tag:buddycomfort.com,2005:Post/6131431
2010-06-03T07:20:00-07:00
2023-06-18T07:03:08-07:00
Speaking of Sound and Silence
<p>Silence is a precious gift. An inalienable right omitted from the US constitution. From the field of silence all sounds can spring. It is the space of breath and the place of listening. </p><p>In the silent spaces among between and within sound is the place that allows the assimilation of what is heard. The nervous system, heart and cells of the body of necessity are faster to know what is experienced than the mind. Creating breathing spaces in music allows deeper listening and an opening by the body on all levels to allow the sound in. </p><p>Too often sound is perceived as an attack, a bombardment and the body defends itself against the onslaught of loud and monolithic sound. The ears will over time if the decibel level (energy of the sound) is too intense protect the nervous system by going deaf through the withering of cilia in the inner ear that transmit certain frequencies to the auditory nerves. </p><p>In our youth we stand in close proximity to high stacks of pa system speakers to feel the thumping of the base notes in our chest and the high lines of the lead instruments that stimulate our feet to frenzied movement. Tribal instincts and abandonment of the body in an age of technical know how that exposes us to too loud sound can leave our ears ringing for hours in the aftermath and over time can create deafness. </p><p>Wearing stereo earphones or ear inserts will result in the same if the volume over time is not mindfully adjusted. If you can hear someone else's music coming out of their earphones while you are across the room you know they are listening at dangerous levels. </p><p>Becoming mindful of the sounds around us and the sounds we make, and the effects they may have on others and ourselves is important in a world out of balance. From listening can come learning. To be continued...</p>
Buddy-Comfort