There is something subversive about being on the train at noon crossing the Manhattan Bridge and looking out to the Brooklyn Bridge, Lady Liberty, the East River and Lower Manhattan. I dreamt of these simple pleasures back in the day and the feeling of freedom is visceral.

In a truly loving relationship—which I have experienced—rather than drawing the one I love to me I give myself to him. Not merely do I prefer to do him good than to have him do good to me, I would even prefer that he did good to himself rather than to me: it is when…

It may be that when we no longer know what to dowe have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to gowe have come to our real journey. — Wendell Berry

Body impermanent like spring mist;Mind insubstantial like empty sky;Thoughts unestablished like breezes in space.Think about these three points over and over.  Gyalwa Godrakpa (ko-brag-pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan, 1170-1249). Tibetan text and translation in Cyrus Stearns: Hermit of Go Cliffs: Timeless Instructions of a Tibetan Mystic, Wisdom Publications, Boston, 2000.

BY THICH NHAT HANH LION’S ROAD, JANUARY 21, 2022 Emptiness is not something to be afraid of, says Thich Nhat Hanh. The Heart Sutra teaches us that form may be empty of self but it’s full of everything else. If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of…

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