My Aspiration
Each & every year, as long as I live, I want to… Talk to you on your birthday Elicit your laughter when you most need it Listen to your for hours at a time Embody…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
At the End of the Semester
For friends in Spirituality of Service & Social Justice classes I want us to be freer I don’t want us to be in thrall to guilt I want us to let our light shine Why…
Dipa Ma’s Encouragement for the Trump Era (Or Any Other)
“Everything will be solved through the dharma.” Dipa Ma
A Facebook Message from Thao Truong
March 29, 2013 Dear Dr. C, i just had a dream about you and your class last night. I saw that we studied abou Love. You wrote a lot of questions about love on the…
Gatha of the Week/3
When wayward thoughts are persistent I vow with all beings to imagine that even the Buddha had silly ideas sometimes. –Robert Aitken, The Dragon Who Never Sleeps:Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice
Share the Wealth with Rosabeth Koehn
Mark invited me to do a Share the Wealth after hearing me talk about my experience of Montessori teacher training this past summer. I have completed one of three summers of study at the Montessori…
Personality
“Our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people.” –Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way “It’s very refreshing to shed the personality thrust on you by other people.” –Keith Johnstone, Impro
A Little Grace Lee Boggs Is in Order These Days
In the days ahead, everyone who loves this country enough to change it will have many opportunities both to reflect on and to practice the radical revolution in values that [Martin Luther] King projected and…
What More Is There To Be Said?
“My eight-year-old daughter was killed. My three-year-old son. Nixon, murderer of civilians. What have I done to Nixon that he should come here to bomb my country? My daughter died right here. She was feeding…