Gather 'round…
" Finally, you will have to chart your own course, find your own way, and take readings (i.e. be mindful) from time to time to check and see if the path you are following--the teachers you are finding and the community you are practicing with, if you have found one--feels intuitively healthy and appropriate to... Continue Reading →
'"In a dark time the eye begins to see.' And this is the paradox: that black is white, that darkness is the mother of beauty, that the extinction of light is a revelation."~ Chet Raymo, The Soul of the Night Without darkness, there is no light. Without depths, heights are not heights. Without suffering, love... Continue Reading →
“No one knew the name of this day;Born quietly from deepest night,It hid its face in light,Demanded nothing for itself,Opened out to offer each of usA field of brightness that traveled ahead,Providing in time, ground to hold our footstepsAnd the light of thought to show the way. The mind of the day draws no attention;It... Continue Reading →
“The Buddha’s Last Instruction ‘Make of yourself a light,’said the Buddha,before he died.I think of this every morningas the east beginsto tear off its many cloudsof darkness, to send up the firstsignal–a white fanstreaked with pink and violet,even green.An old man, he lay downbetween two sala trees,and he might have said anything,knowing it was his... Continue Reading →
Tales From the Nexus 