Just Like Me
Jeffrey Hopkins, the Dalai Lama’s translator for ten years, tells a story about traveling with him in the West. Wherever he went, His Holiness would repeat in English, “Everyone wants happiness, doesn’t want suffering.” He…
Category: Wisdom Traditions
“Don’t Be Frivolous”
This morning at sangha at Sophia House, we distributed at random lojong slogan cards and reflected on ones we received. One of mine was #58, Don’t be frivolous,” which reminds me of the following recollection…
Patience
I believe it’s a thousand year project; I don’t think this thing is going to be finished in my lifetime or in anybody’s lifetime. I think we possibly can get something started that will open…
Life Is with People
A world of images is offered by Christ — better, dramatized by him — images of waiting, listening, observing, debating, healing, conveying hope and humor, telling stories than end with a question lodged like a…
Thich Nhat Hanh, proponent of non-dualism (or, interbeing) said: “Plum Village is everywhere.” So is Belgravia Court.
100 Years
In 2011 several friends and I met to discuss The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs, who passed away this week at the age of 100. The following passage comes from that book: Each…
On Loyola’s Fridge
–Thomas Merton, HHDL Loyola Walter’s apartment Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio
Face to Face with Elie Wiesel
This short review was originally published in the bulletin of the Center for Ethics and Social Policy in Berkeley, April 1993. My book, Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership, was published in spring 2001….
Thought for the Day
Delusion is dreaming; enlightenment is awakening. –P’u-an
Spiritual Exercises (for Social Workers, Nurses, Parents, Teachers, Students…)
“To take flight” every day! At least for a moment, which may be brief, so long as it is intense. A “spiritual exercise” every day—alone or in the company of a person who also wants…