The way I work with these events in my own life is, I notice what occurs (and what I feel and what I learn) rather than trying to make a specific result. That in itself is fairly rare. “Noticing what happens” is the thing that does not usually happen. The Day of the Higher Cause […]

We really have just one job: To remain continually amazed at everything.

A great sense of tranquillity comes when we let go of the futile urge to control everything, and instead relate to each moment with openness and awareness. Happiness and Tranquillity – Jack Kornfield

I’m not entirely sure I know the difference between grief and depression. My father died on February 7, and for the past two and a half weeks, I’ve been grieving his death. This is normal and expected. It’s exactly the kind of ordinary devastation that people all over the world feel every day, that

It is strange to see everything in the Bible as a creation of the Spirit, which inspires those who write it, through different epochs. It is never thought, for example, that the works of Emerson, Whitman and Bernard Shaw have the same author. But the Hebrews took writers that were many miles and cen

Conscious grieving is an integral component of the maturity required to balance compassionate action with the discerning acceptance of our predicament. Welcome to the Planetary Hospice – Our World

There’s a modern tendency to dismiss the five precepts as Sunday-school rules bound to old cultural norms that no longer apply to modern society, but this misses the role that the Buddha intended for them: as part of a course of therapy for wounded minds. https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/NobleStrat

Ryan D. Tweney, professor, book collector, husband, father, and mentor, died February 7 in Pahrump, Nevada, aged 76. Born in Detroit, Ryan was raised by his mother Helene Tweney and grandmother Viola Marciniak, and educated at Cass Technical High School, the University of Chicago, and Wayne State Un

Let’s see, my Latin is poor, but I remember the phrase: “non in tempore sed cum tempore Deus creavit … I do not know what … ordinem mundi.” That means, “Not in time but with time God created the world.” To create the world is to create time. If not, people would ask, what did […]

Nevada sunrise a hot-air balloon floats above the brothel

Happy Poinsettia Season https://www.instagram.com/p/B6bZtuKpDJj/?igshid=rduyt3ymad0h

Every day, priests minutely examine the Dharma and endlessly chant complicated sutras. Before doing that, though, they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon. —Ikkyu via Tashi Nyima