Encouragement

You will have to go on discriminating and make a sustained effort to convince your mind of the fact that japa, meditation, and all other spiritual exercises, have for purpose your awakening. On this pilgrimage…

Remembering Mev

Last week anticipating giving a talk on Mev at her alma mater Visitation Academy, I inquired on Facebook if anyone from her Viz days had recollections about her. Stephanie Ortbals-Tibbs offered the following… I still…

Let’s Get This Straight…

I don’t take refugeIn the Democratic PartyThe Republican PartyOr this Friday night’s party I take refugeIn the Buddha who just turned 70The Dharma of InterbeingAnd the Sangha out in Fenton

Huzzah!

Life would be much more exciting if each of us left a trail of “little sparks of appreciation” along our way.–David Dunn, Try Giving Yourself Away In August of 2021 I finished my fifth major…

Chris Wallach

Some people are able to focus, laser-like, on one thing—athletes, musicians, scientists. For Chris Wallach, it’s mindfulness. It’s a gift. It’s a talent she’s deliberately cultivated over the last many years. It’s a whole set…