What did the Dalai Lama say to the hot dog vendor? "Make me one with everything!" It's a familiar joke, muses American-born Buddhist author and teacher Lama Surya Das, and one that holds a profound truth: that in addition to inner peace, meditation is a path for all-inclusive connection. In his new book he invites us to experience this through the art of inter-meditation and other original practices that allow us to see through the illusion of separation.

Here is an excerpt on unity from Surya's book Make Me One with Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation.

Ten Keys to Inter-Meditation: What Oneness Feels Like

1. Authenticity - which arises from attention, honesty, and pure presence (of mind and heart)
2. Selflessness - a Big-Self-interest that goes beyond selfish, with a little bit of healthy individuation so we can take care of and be responsible for ourselves
3. Generosity - giving of ourselves and sharing things, emotions, energy, time, and wisdom
4. Patience - our commitment to forbearance, tolerance, acceptance, flexibility, and resilience
5. Trust - seeing who or what we're inter-meditating with as a gateway to the Divine, as the mutual respect this encourages is necessary for love. 

Continued...  

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. You can search the history of more than 475 billion pages on the Internet! 

A client of mine (a library!) introduced me to it via what I consider to be one of its niftiest features, the Wayback Machine. Here you can type in a domain name, then view old pages of a website that are no longer published.  It's fun and quite useful too. When I look at the first website I built way back in 2003 using Dreamweaver for my domain TheComputerTherapist.net, I can see how far I've come!  

The Archive is building a library. Libraries exist to preserve society's cultural artifacts and to provide access to them. The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet - a new medium with major historical significance - and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past. Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, the Internet Archive is working to preserve a record for generations to come.  

Learn more at https://archive.org/.

If we've not spoken directly at length, or you've not visited the About page on my main website, you may not realize that I have an eclectic business and life experience that is able to benefit those I work with: 

• Experience in Fortune 100 company (American Express in NY, NY), to small rural organizations (Nambé Pubelo in Santa Fé, NM), to non-profit, quasi-government (Amtrak), and sole entrepreneur
• International and multi-cultural business and social environs
• Industries: Finance, IT, Travel and Transportation, Academia, Health Care/Social Services
• Areas: Operations, Training, Customer Service, Contract Administration, Business Planning & Statistical Analysis, Database Design, Marketing, Publishing, Event Planning
• Education: BA in Sociology, Philosophy; graduate business courses; MSW (Master in Social Work).

• Software training in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Windows, and Email file management
• WordPress website design and development, management, editing and writing content
• Constant Contact account set up, contact management, newsletter design and development, publishing, and metrics analysis and review.

Emails coming into one's Inbox are prolific these days, junk mail and SPAM aside. So how do you determine which get your attention and opened?

Who the email is from is a huge determining factor. Hence, it's important to use a recognizable name. Yet it amazes me that folks - personally and professionally- don't always clearly indicate a recognizable name. Seeing just "John" in the "From" line isn't going to do it. Recently, I almost deleted an important email from a past business associate because he used only his first name and it had landed up in my junk folder; it was the subject line that stopped me from trashing it without opening it first.

If it's a personal email, include a full personal name in the "From" line. If it's a professional email message, use a full name and a company name with an email domain name that is clear too; for example, angelsmith@heavenlychoices.com, not something like iloveheaven@gmail.com.

This practice will reduce frustration and not only help bolster people opening your emails, but indicate a higher level of professionalism too - details ARE important!