Cristina, As you continue your journey into the world of poetry, I can enthusiastically recommend the following anthologies compiled by Eliot Weinberger: The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry American Poetry since 1950: Innovators and…
The Avatamsaka Sutra has this teaching: The one contains the all Today Anna Khodorovich and Zhenya Safina enthusiastically shared Their Russian culture in our Intercultural Studies class They gave us a fascinating overview of a…
It’s easy Pay attention Notice little particulars about a person Exactly not the kind of thing that would be announced with fanfare on Facebook It could be her subtle flair for fashion, having a periwinkle…
In one of the Metta Writing classes this summer We wrote off a topic suggested by Sharon Salzberg’s book Lovingkindness: Our very own loveliness My loveliness is verbal: “You can do it” “Why not?”…
I keep in one file poems I love It’s my own anthology I read & reread poems at least a half hour every day I have many more to add… (Like Li Ch’ing-Chao, Du Fu,…
A friend loaned me a scanner I’ve thousands of photos in basement from decades ago Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes
“There’s plenty of time in this day” Who would claim that And risk setting off a cacophonous chorus of groans? “There’s never enough time To get done all the things I have to do— never,…
Love Laws and the Hierarchy of Despair: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy “He didn’t know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for…
Join us this fall for a writing course that focuses on the 59 mind-training slogans as taught by beloved Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön in her book, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living….
In the summer of 2013, when Ron Laney arrived at Magnolia Grove Monastery in Mississippi, a practice center in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, what he had planned on was simply staying for a…