A Feat of Reading and Writing
1. [T]he sheer enormity of what took place between 1933 and 1945 beggars our powers of description and understanding. The more one studies this period and its excesses, the more one must conclude that for…
Month: October 2017
Share the Wealth with Andrew Wimmer: Practicing Loving Kindness Meditation
I’m looking forward to talking with other meditators about my recent introduction to Loving Kindness Meditation as taught by Bahnte Vimalaramsi during a ten-day retreat at the Dhamma Sukah Meditation Center in southern Missouri. I…
Share the Wealth with Andrew Wimmer: Practicing Loving Kindness Meditation
I’m looking forward to talking with other meditators about my recent introduction to Loving Kindness Meditation as taught by Bahnte Vimalaramsi during a ten-day retreat at the Dhamma Sukah Meditation Center in southern Missouri. I…
A Response to Barghouti’s “I Saw Ramallah” by Liz Burkemper
Liz Burkemper shared this with me, and I am happy to share it here. Liz is a sophomore at George Washington University. “The Occupation has created generations of us that have to adore an unknown…
He’s a Work-in-Progress
Perry You said I could share anything with you. Here’s my attempt with Metta. Joel May Albert Schlie be full of Metta. May he be well. May he know Joy. That hypocritical fuck. –from…
The Audacity of Impunity
Dear Carla and Perry Some thoughts for you Cal A few weeks before in took office Barack Obama said No one is above the law. But once he was in office Bush and Company Were…
Why Translation Matters
Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary…
A Path with Pith
With the sangha a few years ago, I read many of the Buddhist sutras as well as Thich Nhat Hanh’s commentaries. It’s good to plunge in and read these classic texts in community. However, the…