First, deal with your koan: “Do not kill. Do not let others kill. Find whatever means possible to protect life and prevent war.” Second, deepen your breathing. Third, most importantly, build the sangha based on…
First, deal with your koan: “Do not kill. Do not let others kill. Find whatever means possible to protect life and prevent war.” Second, deepen your breathing. Third, most importantly, build the sangha based on…
Since mid-November, I’ve had exchanges with numerous people who were consumed with dread at so much bad news in the news. One afternoon, while walking in the Central West End, I was reminded of…
Many of us worry about the world situation. We don’t know when the bombs will explode. We feel that we are on the edge of time. As individuals, we feel helpless, despairing. The situation is so…
The swami told me to make japam while I walked and to give everybody I met on a street a mental blessing. You weren’t to think of yourself with a feeling of superiority, as a…
The more American troops sent to Vietnam, the more the anti-American campaign led by the NLF becomes successful. Anger and hatred rise in the hearts of the peasants as they see their villages burned, their…
Morning Correspondence, Cafe Ventana, thanks to Katya Madges
You can plan for five hundred years, but you don’t know what will happen in the next moment. –Neem Karoli Baba, quoted in Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush, Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of…
Over poetry, you didn’t gush. You read it. You read it with the tongue. You lived it. You felt how it moved you, changed you. How it contributed to giving your own life a form,…
“Everything will be solved through the dharma.” Dipa Ma