Gatha

Thở vào tâm tĩnh lặng, Thở ra miệng mỉm cười. An trú trong hiện tại, Giây phút đẹp tuyệt vời.

An Ardent Reader’s Simple Request

From a young woman’s fan letter to Marcel Proust: And after three years of uninterrupted reading, my conclusion is this: I understand nothing, but absolutely nothing. Dear Marcel Proust, don’t be a poseur, descend for…

His Memory Always a Blessing

From Rabbi Michael Lerner: Daniel Berrigan was one of the most inspiring figures of the anti-war and social justice movements of the past fifty years. He died on Saturday, April 30, 2016, and will be…

Announcements

Laura Weis shared this with me from a class we had 12 years ago at SLU; this led to her going to  hear Dan Berrigan at Cook Hall. I’m not the only one who keeps…

Finding Treasures

In my basement I come across a thick file “Maggie Rose Murphy” is on the folder It bulges Poems & postcards & letters galore From throughout the 1980s Your scientific acumen Has long been respected…

Zen Poem by Daniel Berrigan

How I long for supernatural powers! said the novice mournfully to the holy one. I see a dead child and I long to say, Arise! I see a sick man I long to say, Be…