I just wanted to share Maia Duerr's beautiful piece form the Liberated Life Project. It's hard to put words to this morning's experience of the hurricane that swept through so many of our lives yesterday ("impermanence" rings through my mind...
Love Sonnet #17
Pablo Neruda
read by the Malis...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKjzEHqPHQs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKjzEHqPHQs
edit: adding the English text, a friend just sent to me...
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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose,...
A friend just posted this on twitter, and i thought i'd share it, seeing as some of the states are in one of those teacher bashing modes, down on their unions, etc.
Here's to all the crazy wisdom out there, and all the teachers who wake...
Death. Maybe all religions were invented to deal with this basic dilemma, sitting right in the middle of the room with us at all times, like a huge, silent tiger, staring us balefully in the eyes. Could we ever not be afraid of it? Certainly our...
Arizona wants to ban the law of karma??
This would be funny if it weren't so just plain weird, and part of a larger element of tragedy and general bizarreness going on in Arizona lately.
Link to The Worst Horse article, picked up by...
"Today, like every other day, we wake up
empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
there are...
In my fifth grade art class we had an impromptu discussion yesterday about how school is filled with the expectation that the students "know things," and how that can make them afraid to be ok with "not knowing." The pressure...
This summer I attended the Symposium for Socially Engaged Western Buddhism organized by Bernie Glassman and the Zen Peacemakers at the Zen House in Montague, Massachusetts. It was an amazing experience well beyond my ability to describe with words...
