Tag: Buddha

Reframing Criticism

When [Dipa Ma] stood up against something she felt was wrong, sometimes others would blame and criticize her. But she was not bothered by this. She told me, “Why be upset? Even the Buddha had…

The Venerable Thien Hue

“I am a monk,” says Hue as imperturbably as ever. “I do nothing against the government. I live in silence and I pray. I have been in prison for two hundred days now, for no…

Today’s One-Liner (#325)

I believe in Buddha kindness and nothing else, I believe in Heaven, in Angels, I eschew all Marxism and allied horseshit and psychoanalysis, and offshoot therefrom. –Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, January 1958

How to Start

… if we want to change the world, we have to change ourselves. Unfortunately, that is not where most people begin. Most of the leaders I have met, both here and in India, strike a…

Appreciating Jack Appreciating

Jack Kerouac, Selected Letters: 1940-1956, v. 1 As I’m convinced of the the utility of “pulling”* from my reading, I found the following gems in some of Kerouac’s letters up till  he had to deal…

A Path with Pith

With the sangha a few years ago, I read many of the Buddhist sutras as well as Thich Nhat Hanh’s commentaries. It’s good to plunge in and read these classic texts in community. However, the…

Crazy Jane Is Back in Town

I met the Buddha on the road And little said she and I “The Diamond Sutra is matchless Reading it makes me cry” “You just  reminded me of Mary Oliver Her percipience makes me cry”