For a Grad Student in Doubt (“What Am I Doing Here?!”)
Declare Wednesdays as the weekly liberated time zone of not once having to justify being in school to yourself or to anyone Leave guilt at the door of the library, then stride in with gusto,…
Month: December 2016
Wake Up
Someone asked Yudhishthira, “What is the most wondrous thing in the entire world?” He said, “The most wondrous thing in the entire world is that all around us people can be dying and we don’t…
Who We Were, Who We Are
“I don’t know that any reasonable, sensible person thinks the Vietnam War was a good and righteous undertaking, but it is crucial that we come to understand the war as an event and expression of…
Magnolia Grove
My friend Sherri put together this tribute to Thich Nhat Hanh’s community in Mississippi, Magnolia Grove. I hope you enjoy it in mindfulness!
Trump Trumpets His Real Plans by Ralph Nader
I receive regular emails from Ralph Nader, and want to share today’s correspondence. He’s been fighting injustice and serving as a consumer advocate in this country for over fifty years. Even for a…
Gatha of the Week/2
“Waking up this morning, I smile Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.” –Thich Nhat Hanh, Present…
Make America Great Again, Again
This is total war… If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war,…
Hold It All/37
In the last thirty years of his life, [Jacob] Glatshteyn’s poetry became an incessant, internalized conversation on Jewish history, the lost world of European Jewry, the birth of Israel, assimilation in America, the tragic demise…
Training Everyday
For a true gentleman [junzi], learning is a matter of working on oneself. When slander and praise, glory and disgrace come, not only is his mind unmoved by such things, but he uses them as…
Facebook Wall Post from Chris Hesh, 11.20.2008
I saw a composition notebook and The Book of Mev with a college student attached yesterday night at the Gelateria. Mark ‘Omnipresent’ Chmiel