Last year I announced that I’d been accepted to a fellowship program housed at The Institute for Diversity & Civic Culture where I’d be doing an oral history project featuring the lived experiences of Texas Buddhists. I named it “84000 Doors” after the Buddhist concept that there are infinite entry…
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Discerning, Pristine Cognition
Summer is officially here. The solstice occurred this past weekend, and right on cue, things are heating up outdoors. To be fair, we’ve had unusually mild weather and lots of rain this year, so I can’t complain. The lawn has been resurrected and we still have plenty of wildflowers blooming…
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I’m an IDCL Texas Storyscapes Community Fellow!
Super, SUPER stoked to be part of this program for the next year! The Institute for Diversity and Civic Life is a nonprofit organization dedicated to telling stories and documenting experiences of the endlessly diverse people living in Texas. I’m joining a group of multimedia storytellers, each of us working…
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FIVE REMEMBRANCES, AND THE VALUE OF TEARS
Last night I decided to log in and join my zen sangha’s Wednesday night meditation group. Every week there is a different theme for the meditation, and last night’s was loving-kindness. I haven’t been feeling much loving-kindness these days. Quite the opposite, really. So I wasn’t sure I wanted to…
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Blog 5.22.24
This evening I have the opportunity to lead our koan meditation group, and I spent some time yesterday selecting a koan for us to consider. After reading several, I decided upon Jizo’s “Not Knowing is Most Intimate” as translated in The Book of Equanimity by Gerry Shishin Wick: Attention! Master…