Sadly I heard the news today that John DaidoLooriRoshihas passed away form lung cancer. He was truly one of the heavy weights in the Zen arena and had a profound influence on my life. Deep Gassho friend
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Here's a poem from Billy Collins that celebrates the wild aspects of this holiday season: Christmas Sparrow The first thing I heard this morning was a rapid ...
A light reflects, refracts, rebounds.
The resulting refracted light, reflections and so on each too do the same.
The self is similar in the way she refrac...
Lost
in
A Moment to
Capture,
In loves
ecstacy,
Ahhh,
Such Sweet
Rapture.
Her
Arms
Enveloped
Me
Momenteraly,
. . . but I, holding on
for oh so
eternally...
So I went back on the caffeine. I'm not annoyed at myself and I don't think it's as bad as thought it was to drink caffeine and to practice. My initial motiv...
Checking in ia a process you go through every time you change from command
to command.
Its a meet and greet process, along with getting rosters up to date a...
Last evening I received a phone call from Andy, a martial artist who is
currently out in Los Angeles. He is a Shorei Kempo student out of Green Bay
and wo...
I'm not much of a magazine reader, except for those few times when I found
old copies of Utne Reader and Paper in a second hand bookstore. I'm not sure
if ...
A year ago the Dalai Lama sent us a letter endorsing a safe-climate target
for atmospheric carbon dioxide, 350 parts per million. This has since been
accep...
The Age of Stupid (2009)
Blurring the boundary between sci-fi and documentary, Franny Armstrong’s *The
Age of Stupid*
peers back in time from a climate c...
Last time checking the Internet before Thailand. I'll be in the forest most
of the time, but will try to post at least some twitters from time to time.
O...