I Looked Too Hard for Things That Aren’t There by Yin Kai Shakya, Zen Buddhist Priest Order of Hsu Yun ‘Avalokiteshvara while practicing deeply with… Read More »I looked Too Hard for Things That Aren’t There
Not Yet Still Life By Yao Xiang Shakya It began when the U.S. election polls suggested a visible drift upward towards selecting the most unlikely… Read More »Not Yet Still Life
The spiritual life is for you and others. It’s not owned by anyone, it is for you and me and everyone else. It’s not a… Read More »Nose to the Ground by Yao Xiang Shakya
From Ming Zhen Shakya… I really don’t want to be remembered, because I don’t think I’ve done anything to be remembered for. I’d just like… Read More »From Ming Zhen Shakya
There is nothing I own, Or will ever own. Yet I reach out, Convinced that I can, Then wanting more. On the prairie,… Read More »A Lesson from the Prairie
I read this morning that the early Christian church took on the laws and structures of the Roman state. It was when persecutions of… Read More »Trends
What is true everywhere, for everyone…all the time? We are born, we appear, we get sick, we grow old and we die. That is true… Read More »Nothing in Life Has Lines Around It | We Draw the Lines By Yao Xiang Shakya
Don’t Lament Death, Watch Your Step by Yao Xiang Shakya Last week I was asked to speak at a memorial service for one of the… Read More »Don’t Lament Death, Watch Your Step
When I walk into her apartment, into the small entranceway where she greets me, takes my coat — hugs and kisses me with agape’ affection… Read More »The Cardinals by Elliot W. Lesser
Look, But Do Not Touch My friend is dying. My children no longer see me as who we brought forth together. The arrival of both… Read More »Vanishing — Look, But Do Not Touch