Infusing Western Life with Tibetan Buddhist Compassion
Motivated Buddhist practice. Challenging, empowering, difficult, beautiful, rugged, liberating; engaging awareness, slippery mindfulness. For most, it’s often a back-and-forth process . . . two steps forward and one back (only one, hopefully). *** Dharma mind arises as the tiniest of sparks, then progresses into kindling fire, etc. The winds blowing through the days of our … Read more
It’s an age-old riddle: if a tree falls in the forest (where no one is listening), does it make a noise? The answer in terms of accepted science is clear: (from the human perspective) the falling tree creates vibrations in the air which become noise if — and only if – they relate to an … Read more
Summertime . . . a time for road trips, forest hikes, picnics, ocean sunrises and sunsets. Let’s animate . . . leave for a summer excursion, inside, to where our greatest potential(s) lie. Where the skies are iridescently blue while transformative raindrops, full of infinite Buddhas, fall and penetrate. The joy of being in this … Read more
When I was 19 years old and living in NYC, I had an inkling to stick out my thumb and go for broke, coast-to-coast. At the time it was all about the open door, a battered map, and my desire to experience . . . and frankly, proving to myself that I actually would/could do … Read more
This year’s Earth Day observations, we had our first March for Science. Crowds massed in Washington, D.C., and around the world to support science and evidence-based research – a protest partly fueled by opposition to Trump’s threats of budget cuts to agencies funding scientists’ work. *** Science is a process. It does not pretend to … Read more
(Dharma) Bread Crumb #11 Pain and horror shock and disrupt, and driven by loud emotion we want immediately to deal with and fix the situation. This is true of us all, including Dharma students and practitioners. But when pushed too far, we may turn and act without thought. And without fore-thought, we won’t know where … Read more