Thought of the Day
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. –Arnold Bennett
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Agenda, Second Saturday Sangha 12 November 2016
Opening/The Heart Sutra The Bodhisattva Avalokita, while moving in the deep course of Perfect Understanding, shed light on the five skandhas and found them equally empty. After this penetration, he overcome all pain. “Listen, Shariputra,…
Safa and the Marine Face to Face in the Parking Lot (Ahimsa/2)
Dear Professor You asked how things are going in grad school Here’s today’s highlight— Before going to class today I stopped at Starbucks to get a latte As I was walking back to my car…
Gathas Written at Northwest Coffee, 11.9.2016
1. Breathing in, all this toxicity Breathing out, compassion is available 2. Breathing in, noticing this state of being stunned Breathing out, realizing this state is impermanent 3. Breathing in my friends’ despair Breathing out:…
From One of Jesus’ Students in the United States of Amnesia
We are not to forget, to lose our hold upon the word of God as to our vocation (which is in effect much akin to the vocation of the prophet). To forget in this sense…
A Second Bible by Melech Ravitch
Why shouldn’t a second Jewish Book be put together and edited and canonized, on the lines of our Bible? 377 A Bible is not an anthology, nor a history, nor a collection of documents. It…
No Time for Literary Criticism
You are the voice of people with adhesive tape across their mouths This is no time for literary criticism. Nor for attacking the gorillas with surrealistic poems. And what use are metaphors if slavery is…
A Disciple and His Guru
Dear Max, I never read Christopher Isherwood until this summer. What drew me to him was not his fictional output but his spiritual journey. My Guru and His Disciple is his engaging memoir of several…
Om Satyam Shivam Sundaram
If you’ve ever … put your faith in a guru traveled to India and were blown away and never took a single drug recited a mantram throughout the day memorized part of chapter 2 of…
A Most Unsolemn Request
At my wake or funeral With a big smile on your shining-with-sri face Announce: “Happy Continuation Day, Shimmelstoy!”