Control This is a huge issue. Isn't it? Recently another famous Buddhist teacher was accused of sexual misconduct and was asked to step down from his position in the organization until some form of resolution could take place. And so it goes until Males on the planet start to listen, become educated, and move to... Continue Reading →

THE WAY IT FEELS      A lot of times I manage to achieve a equanimity in my life that, for the period it exists, seems to add much to the quality of my experience. Then, something happens that I really don't want to happen and I am aware of feelings of resistance arising. Or,... Continue Reading →

  Cobbling together the past to form ideas of next, I play the odds, hoping that this time I will see the future form into what I am thinking. The odds? Time and the combinations of universal transience on one side, with my ability to guess the future on the other. One day I stop... Continue Reading →

       For the last year or so I have been studying Thomas Merton's "Seeds of Contemplation" and the Japanese Zen Teacher Bankei's talks. I am constantly fascinated by the connection between the sharing's of both monks. Bankei was a Zen monk and Merton a Trappist monk. Yet, so much perspective resonates between these... Continue Reading →