Kikyoshiki
Now, in this confirmation ceremony, before Amida Buddha and the founder, Shinran Shonin, I awaken anew my awareness of myself as a Shin Buddhist. Placing myself in the tradition flowing from Shinran Shonin, I realize... More »
Now, in this confirmation ceremony, before Amida Buddha and the founder, Shinran Shonin, I awaken anew my awareness of myself as a Shin Buddhist. Placing myself in the tradition flowing from Shinran Shonin, I realize... More »
listening to the white album on a white day on my way to Labsum Shedrub Ling on the mountain in Washington saying prayers with the Lamas paying homage to the Buddha with my Sangha come... More »
upsetting myself and others over nonsense an attachment to anger and negative emotions must be severed to find a path to true liberation and bliss stopping the cycle to jump the slave ship and swim... More »
tonight at the Lensic Theatre Gary Snyder spoke of Jack Kerouac and read some of his work such a reverence for nature and humanity afterwards I waited on line to get my book signed twenty-seventh... More »
flowing downstream always south we are born and are constantly in decline from thereafter we must spread love and compassion for one another hate does nothing but destroy anger does nothing but divide hands should... More »
Pinewood breeze high above Boulder come to Naropa to hear the poets talk about the mountains endless roads stretched before as eagles soar over rocky crags the sound of crows and flys and everything and... More »
shine like Saint Shinran awaken walk the sacred path that he has paved