For Buddhists, the world is a web. Everything is connected, and everyone as well. Long before I knew there was a word for this — interconnectedness — I believed in it. What I did, I knew even as a child, […]
For Buddhists, the world is a web. Everything is connected, and everyone as well. Long before I knew there was a word for this — interconnectedness — I believed in it. What I did, I knew even as a child, […]
When I was a young child, I knew very little about the lines drawn by religions to set themselves apart. It all seemed one universe, one Divine Plan, as accessible as my hands & toes. I made bargains w/ the […]
Yesterday I wrote a bit about Oprah’s upcoming Sunday interview w/Thích Nhất Hạnh. In the excerpt, she asks him if he has regrets — if the Nobel-nominated, quiet Buddhist monk ever contemplates a path that might have held a wife, […]
Once, when my life was going very badly, and I was so angry every moment that it was like a white-hot inferno raging inside of me, Thích Nhất Hạnh soothed me. Actually, he probably saved me. At the very least he […]
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contrasts and contradictions (or not...)
posted 11:42:43am Feb. 28, 2015 | read full post »
a long long time ago, or, updating our moral software
posted 10:52:31pm Feb. 26, 2015 | read full post »
the vulnerability of grace
posted 4:25:29pm Feb. 23, 2015 | read full post »
lists, writing, and cleaning the mind's house
posted 3:50:10pm Feb. 21, 2015 | read full post »
oh RATS, or, rescue and repatriation and compassion
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