The Wonderful Practice of Letting Go
It’s Saturday, December 16th and we are preparing to leave Nepal for a few weeks in Thailand. We’ll jump from 64 degrees to the mid-eighties as we disembark in Chiang Mai—another place saturated in Bu…
Read MoreWish You Were Here
This is Boudhanath, the neighborhood where I am staying. The photo is borrowed from the internet, because it’s a drone shot. I am three minutes’ walk from the stupa in the center. This is how th…
Read MorePatience, Humor, and Grace
Hello, Friends, It’s early in the morning—frosty and dark outside—and such a good time of year to turn inward. Off in the distance I hear jets at the airport warming their engines. I am aware of the g…
Read MoreTonglen and the Farmers’ Market
Today, after our tonglen practice, I accidentally found myself at Woodlawn Farmers’ Market. I meant to get coffee and a roll at the bakery, but I saw the market was open and I decided …
Read MoreNew book by a friend of mine
Diane Berger is a senior Buddhist practitioner in Seattle, with a fascinating life story. It’s our good fortune that she’s also a writer. This book details her time in a solo three-plus ye…
Read MoreBeautiful 20 minute documentary on Tibetan Nomads
This video is wonderful. My lama-friend from Seattle, Diane Berger, is in it briefly and was a part of the project. It is the story about a small project to build a bridge across a river so that local…
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