April 14-15-16 part 3

  April 14-15-16 part 3 Muffins and earl grey at Beth’s Special Teas. Cape Cod sunny Sunday wind pure fresh walk the little strip East Sandwich shops, still missing the Herb Shop but our gratitude is high for the tea Shop haven from all manner of Dunkin Dodo swill. Hot chocolate for the child. What [...]

may all who journey

The Buddhist challenge The Buddhist challenge to conventional Western notions of spirituality illuminates the way we set flesh and spirit at war with each other. In Buddhism there is no original sin. Although noticing how we express our sexuality can certainly lead to an awareness of right conduct, the flesh is not regarded as representing [...]

4 oct 2009

on friday decanted a tincture of  Horse Tail – Equisetum arvense. also decanted the   last St.johns wort oils. worked on some new poems yesterday and sent out some stuff  to different publishers. Osprey Journal, Eleutheria:Scottish Poetry Review    http://www.scottishpoetryreview.com/ and shitcreek review http://shitcreek.auszine.com/-  which have accepted previous submissions. new venues ; Calliope Nerve http://calliopenerve.blogspot.com/, Spine [...]

if we truly see the world

if we truly see the world as it is our hearts would break. and  if our hard and well protected heart were broken then they would become truly soft. what if we all treated the world with softness, the natural softness of the human heart? is that buddha is that christ, is that the goddess [...]

23. sept.

finally got to go to work. spent a few hours cutting grass in the village. done just before the showers. home with shelly for lunch and then pick up the child from school. homework, meal prep, walk down by the lake. tomorrow we’ll go to town, watch Morgan swimming lesson and then do a grocery [...]

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The Whole Day -the whole day is practice. As Long As -as long as we are in the present moment, we are relaxed. -– Ringu Tulku

22. sept.

drag of a grey morning, hard to shift the black dog off the bed. saved my life by blowing off work – couldnt get much done in the rain anyway, and keeping the practise alive kept me alive. todays yoga music by Imee Ooi, her recording of The Chant Of Metta http://www.immmusic.com/product/eng/product.htm finally a long [...]

herbal 21.sept.

decanted another batch of st. johns. picked some more elderberries for making gifts for friends and family. still havent figured out what to do with the sloes. they arent ready to pick until the first hard frost which i hope is still a ways off. shelly is going to find a recipe for the rowan [...]

may all who journey

from the head to the heart, this is said to be the longest journey – Ringu Tulku

may all who journey

Show Me Your Anger There’s an old koan about a monk who went to his master and said “I’m a very angry person, and I want you to help me.” The master said, “Show me your anger.” The monk said, “Well, right now I’m not angry. I can’t show it to you.” And the master [...]