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The Gift of No Abode
Several years prior to any formal spiritual practice, I was walking through New York Citys East Village one night during a particularly cold March rain. I was a starving artist on my way home from an evening of waiting tables, and I was experiencing great difficulty...
Aung San Suu Kyi is free… now what?
Fiat, using Manjushri's sword and letting light in... The worsthorse also reports that the Dalai Lama is contributing his marketable image to Aung San Suu Kyi's plight. All this amid the ending of her house arrest and subsequent release by Burmese authorities over the...
Nirvana By The Bay
San Francisco Bay from the Berkeley Hills
St. Helena, California on a Rainy Morning
St. Helena, CA Not a bad way to spend the moment. It's also not a bad setting for sitting.
Commuter Zen #25
What happens when a life falls apart?
Commuter Zen #24 – Baseball, Dharma & Crushes on 60s TV Characters
This is from a profile of Jack Kornfield in November's Shambhala Sun magazine. In an era when some teachers downplay talk of enlightenment, hes more passionate than ever about what he calls the dharma of liberation. To Kornfield, its only natural that the same...
Encore: Showing Up
This entry comes from the book, Awake in This Life. _____ Only a Buddha with a Buddha realizes enlightenment. Lotus Sutra All real living is meeting. Martin Buber When I see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see that I am everything, that is love. And...
Lama Surya Das on Christ and the Buddha
Lama Surya Das explains the similarities between the teachings of Jesus and Buddha.
Winter 2011 – Day-long Intensive
Meeting Our Hearts Deepest Longing Saturday, February 19 GREEN GULCH FARM ZEN CENTER This one-day sitting will involve sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talks, Q & A and, by request, private interviews with Michael. Confirmation will be sent to you when your...