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Beginner's Heart
tragedy, great sorrow, and the breath ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
I have nothing to say after a tragedy of this magnitude. My heart hurts — I have to catch my breath, thinking of sending a child or children off to school, and never seeing them again… My mind races: what have we come to? How did this happen? What can we do to stop these…
(active) sitting ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
I’ve mentioned elsewhere in this blog — more than once — that I’m a lousy traditional meditator. I suspect a lot of working American Buddhists are. It’s hard to find time to sit on a zafu and meditate. Dinner, work, email and other stuff take over my days like petty despots. They scream like the…
questioning death and impermanence ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
My students are struggling with death. This has been a week where two have lost childhood friends — close friends — within 48 hours. Their grief, disbelief, and questions fill the classroom. Why? they ask me. It isn’t fair. I’m struggling with death as well. My beloved mother-in-law — as dear as my own mother…
stringing a harp… or, can anger be righteous?
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Anger is my mind poison. In Buddhism, there are three — greed, anger, & delusion. Once you hear of them, you pretty much know which is yours. Although often I have to work against a kind of negative cocktail effect of all three ~ I often want more, and I still believe some people will…
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