: About Me

Travis is an over-aged undergraduate student at the University of South Florida, in Tampa. He is majoring in psychology, and hopes to start graduate school next fall.

He is a vegetarian Buddhist who doesn't like people touching his belly button.

His heroes are Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Alan Watts.

My passion is ...

Enlightenment

I know too much about ...

nonsense

My parents always told me ...

not much, which I used to think was bad, until I realized it allowed me to grow unfettered.

My childhood ambition ...

was to rule the world

Why I write ...

because it allows me to express myself in a way I am unable to elsewhere.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

a diverse eccletic sampling of what the world has to offer.

My first job ...

mowing lawns and sweeping floors at the family business.

My best moment ...

I made this really good sandwich once.

My inspiration ...

people who change the world in a positive direction.

Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism Practicing Buddhism in everyday life

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When we relate with people and the world we are really working with ourselves. Every situation and interaction is not only a teaching/learning situation it is also a reflection and status report of our present state, progress, or lack thereof. Things that we perceive to be external that cause us anger, annoyance, stress, etc., are really aspects of our mind being shown to us as if our mind were a movie projector treating us to our inner workings manifested in the outside' world. The Buddha said our life is a dream. Not that it's like a dream, but that it is a dream. If you think about the ...

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