How this Buddhist is bringing delight to the web in lockdown — ‘Reality is always already the case.’ Adi Da Samraj I don’t know much about nuns. In my 58-year span, there’s only been two of any note. One was a confessor at the tail-end of a six-week stint in rehab where I had just turned 27. The other appeared through the…

Everything important is beneath from icebergs to trees to foundations of houses — a lair for Grizzly Pluto & Hades, submarines & sickle cells, hell, let’s say all disease — & truth, of course rarely sees day or light. We are nothing without rhizomes & unreason soil & seed, skin to raise that inky picture from your sleeve. Even…

Let’s start with a poem — once told, you will see it is required reading. Words alone can smooth our rough feathers if they carry the power of unseen forces. CONVERSATIONS IN THE MOUNTAIN If you were to ask me why I dwell among green mountains, I should laugh silently; my soul is serene. The peach blossom follows the moving water, There is another heaven and earth beyond the words of men. Love never lets go. It tugs at us…

The sea is my meditation now— its sounds caught me in my own rhythms & returned me to the void. Once again, I am everything I was fully remembered & restored. The old sluice gate is gone. I sat by its ruffled lake & wandered along its shores until land &…

I was Adonis once & remember how the girls would come & encircle me in their tight band while older women out shopping would put away their bags & gawp. I a shy but centrifugal force too often the target of their gaze yet would not wield the power they gave longing to grow fat & old…

How come we no longer know what we are doing? — ‘Entering the modern world is like stepping into an initiation already under way.’ Michael Meade Like it or not, we are in a global initiation and very few people have been prepared or can comprehend where they find themselves. That’s because so few of us have been through a deliberate…

It is rarely deliberate, but each one tests the other in the litmus test of love to lay the unremembered past upon the altar of our beloved — ask the knotty questions Is she good enough for mother? From the honeymoon isle latent interrogations begin ‘This is how you fold…

How do we measure greatness in a misshapen world? — ‘Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the religious formula to which life shapes itself…Whereas in the life of mankind the mythical represents an early and primitive stage, in the life of an individual it represents a late and mature one.’ Thomas Mann How do we…