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Amnesia and Anesthesia: Remembering To Remember; Feeling Deeply
Insights Into Practices 3-Month Online Practice Period (beginning January 8th) A Favorite Quote What I’m Watching Two core ills of our culture are amnesia and anesthesia, forgetting and not feeling. This comes from Frances Weller’s beautiful book The Wild Edge of...
Delusions Are Inexhaustible, I Vow To End Them
The Aspiration and Practice of Not Being Fooled By Things Insights Into Practices A Zen Poem: Harmony of Difference and Equality What I’m Watching Half Day Retreats An egg of an eagle once mysteriously ended up in a chicken coop. The eagle hatches and grows up among...
Cartwheeling In Thunderstorms
Cosmic, Transcendent, Grounded Leadership Insights Into Practices: Cartwheeling In Thunderstorms A Favorite Quote A Poem: Just Thinking Half-day Retreat - October 13th Cartwheeling In Thunderstorms is a children’s book by Katherine Rundell. I haven’t read the book,...
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...