Taking refuge in kindness is coming home to yourself with a gesture of kindness when you are feeling anxious, lonely, depressed, and down on yourself. Tara Brach teaches us to have a little self-compassion: The way of healing and homecoming begins with what I call “a gesture of kindness.” You might for instance put your […]
A Coincidence That Opened My Heart
October 10, 2013 by
I celebrated my continuation day on October 8. Micah arrived from Ashland, Oregon on the 6th. Rachael was sill in San Diego and was scheduled on a flight to arrive in San Francisco at 9:50 AM on the morning of the 8th. I had planned to pick her up at the airport and meet Micah […]
Be A Bell Tower
October 9, 2013 by
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. —Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian mystic poet and novelist, “widely […]
The Vanishing Bucket List
October 6, 2013 by
My dharma brother and fellow OI1 member, Peter Cutler, posted this article on the OI Discussion board on Friday, October 4. I wrote back that what he wrote fits very nicely with Dr. Sara Gordon‘s article, Undivided Self. Peter’s writing about the vanishing bucket list is clear and interesting. The Vanishing Bucket List Whether we […]
Lonely Travelers
October 5, 2013 by
As of today, October 5, 2013, all three of my children are away from their homes. Micah, who lives in New York is in Ashland, Oregon at the Shakespeare Festival. This is something he has been doing since his days at Stanford University. Rachael is visiting her college friend in San Diego, California, where she […]
Violence Is Never Ever A Choice A Man Should Make
October 3, 2013 by
This short video will hopefully develop a lot of compassion in you. When Heather Skye asked Sir Patrick Stewart,”Besides acting, what are you most proud of that you have done in you life (that you are willing to share with us)?” Heather writes, Sir Patrick told us about how he couldn’t protect his mother from […]
Yom Kippur in the Streets of Tel-Aviv 2013 by Lilach Shamir | Zen Peacemakers
October 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Yom Kippur in the Streets of Tel-Aviv 2013 by Lilach Shamir | Zen Peacemakers.
Thich Nhat Hanh on Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism | On Being
September 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Thich Nhat Hanh on Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism | On Being.
Forgiving Ourselves And Others
September 29, 2013 by
Last week, I wrote an article titled, A Wise And Understanding Heart. In this article, I reported on my Bar Mitzvah speech in which I asked God for “A wise and understanding heart to discern between good and evil.” Today, I read an article in Tricycle Magazine about The Power of Forgiveness by Gina Sharpe. […]
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Meditation Flash Mob Descends on Manhattan
September 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Meditation Flash Mob Descends on Manhattan
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