The following is a short summary and commonplace passages with comments on Tom Segev’s book, The 7th Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. It’s one of the many books I examined when writing my first…
Thich Nhat Hanh, Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals 1962-1966* We must strengthen ourselves for the coming test. –Thich Nhat Hanh [p. 66] This book is an enchanting glimpse into the Vietnamese Zen Master long before he…
Thich Nhat Hanh. Cultivating the Mind of Love: The Practice of Looking Deeply in the Mayahana Buddhist Tradition. “The best way to touch the Buddha — not to look for a person, a non-person, a…
6:00 a.m. Already 88 degrees Dear Bella In Spiritual Practice class yesterday I asked the students to make a list Of their ordinary daily activities They took a few minutes And came up with a…
Wherever you have refugees, you have vultures who feed off them. –Kuan Ying, quoted in Lady Borton, Sensing the Enemy: An American Woman among the Boat People of Vietnam [101] Three worlds collide in this…
For the last several years Henry’s friend David Harbrecht Had been paying attention to the drama of the Palestinian struggle Once he visited He was moved in his viscera He then made a decision There…
…what Americans need to face is that these horrors are in fact being perpetrated with American assent, by a government kept in power solely by American military might, by men paid for by American dollars,…
For Lindsay Morning Aspiration: Upon first waking up in the morning, recite this gatha from Thich Nhat Hanh: “Waking up this morning, I smile: Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to…
What a beautiful phone message you just left What a beautiful Friday reunion after 5 months separation What a beautiful mantram walk up Washington Boulevard What a beautiful hour at Reshma’s Café planning the spiritual…
Perry When we ran into each other On the sidewalk in front of Gelato Supreme And I asked you, “Hey, when can we get together again? Last Monday was so long ago!” You raised that…