Beginning sometime Saturday afternoon/evening - following a post-work nap and a drive to Maine - I’ll be on solo retreat until May 6. No cell phone, no television, no regular phone, and no radio. I’m purposefully not bringing any books. I’ll divide my time between sitting and walking meditation, yoga, some leisure activities like photography, […]
When a member of your new sangha creates an aphorism like the one titling this entry, you know you’ve found home. I love it; such a rich reminder to be present in the moment.
Dear friends,
I spend way too much time trying to be someone other than who I am. Not so much different, but “more”, “better”, “greater”… I seize upon my interests and take them as far as I’m able before my fuel runs out. Even that is part of who I am; I take on challenges as […]
The hardest part of understanding compassion is knowing when it’s best not just to be forgiving and completely accepting. I think I’m at one of those points now, but my mind struggles with it: am I about to do the right thing?
I have struggled with the practice of abortion since high school, moving from the side of total opposition to qualified support to full support, and back to the middle. At no time, however, did I believe that my feelings surrounding abortion should be codified into law, as seems to prevalent in American culture today. I […]