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The Joy Of Resisting Change
Remembering The Five Remembrances Insights Into Practices A Video of Shunryu Suzuki My Favorite Quote This Week Half-day Retreat, October 13th Weekend Retreat, November 1 - 3 Sometimes I resist change on many levels. Yet as an old saw goes, the only constant is...
Retire Now: Don’t Wait
“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground. Delusion is trying to grasp for something solid in this fleeting world.” Insights Into Practices: Retire Now Two Of My Favorite Quotes What I’m...
Why Meditate?: Some Answers From Epigenetics and Zen Teacher Dogen
"You are perfect just as you are, and you can use a little improvement." - Shunryu Suzuki · Insights Into Practices: Epigenetics and Dogen · What I’m Watching: Lessons In Chemistry; One Day · What I’m Reading: Lessons in Chemistry · Half-Day Retreat · Weekend Retreat...
Appreciating Leonard Cohen
“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.” - Leonard Cohen Insights Into Practices: Quotes From Leonard Cohen Films About Leonard Cohen What I’m Watching A Poem by Hafez, “I have a thousand brilliant lies…” Half Day Sitting, Oct. 13 Weekend...
Awe In Everyday Life
Insights Into Practices: Awe Zen Puzzler: Everyone Wants To Leave The Endless Changes A Poem, by Wendell Berry “Awe is everywhere. It’s the world. It is about pausing and reflecting and looking at things anew. The science tells us is it’s good for our minds and...
Do Good, Avoid Harm, Appreciate Your Lunacy, Pray For Help
A compelling slogan to live by Insights Into Practices What I’m Reading What I’m Listening To Half-day Retreat: In Mill Valley ·Weekend Retreat: Green Gulch Farm This is one of my favorite, and most surprising slogans from a group of 59 statements called “Lojong”...