Browsing the archives for the dharma tag
No ha ha’s here, I’m afraid. Teacher Martha Rivera Alanis was teaching her class in Monterrrey, Mexico, when a shoot out broke out, outside. She makes the kids lay on the floor, and then she sings songs with them (as people outside are being killed) to keep them calm. Incredible courage, and compassion is shown [...]
I grow old… I grow old… I shall wear the bottoms of my trouser rolled. – T.S. Eliot I am old. I finished growing old at least a decade ago; now I shrink into myself like a rotting peach. Days without pain and stiffness are far behind me. Where once I ran, I now hobble. [...]
I have been getting a little more into my Hindu, advaitist side. It just snuck up on me. I started reading the Bhagavad Gita, and then… boom. I’m all spiritual… kind of. For me. The deities in the above picture are (from left to right) MahaLakshmi, Ganesh, and Saraswati. I have had a fairly consistent [...]
From my island home I feel a chance To kiss the tired ghosts of time and circumstance So give me peace of mind and let me dance Bury all my pain of years beneath the sand Youdopia, This song moves me in its simplicity, vulnerability, and tiny shimmers of hermetic insight that the boys used [...]
