Enjoying the Food of Samadhi (Meditation), Garrison Institute, January 2010.
Enjoying the Food of Samadhi (Meditation), Garrison Institute, January 2010.
A Message to My Beloved Friends: One thing we should understand in terms of the view of interdependence is that each and every phenomenon has its own source and reason for being. And so there is a reason why we have come to know one another so well and become such good friends. The reason […]
“Any fool can sail a silent sea.” So said one of my first meditation instructors, Christopher Titmuss, as we learned to sit with and through mental and physicial discomfort in the Burmese Vihar, Bodh Gaya, circa Christmas 1982. And so I write to you in the midst of a seasonal blizzard in the western Catskill mountains of upstate New York.
This storm is but a coda to three months of furious flurries and foul weather. I am referring, of course, to the dismal economy, whose wailings have followed me to China and back, across the country, and to Nepal and back this fall. And now, I fear, the winter of our discontent commences tomorrow, December 21.
How is your path across these perilous seas, through the towering waves, and into the void faring right now? Are you blistered and cold from gripping the cords on your sails tightly, bracing against the indifferent gales?
Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche Teaching Event in San Jose, CA. Feb 18th - 20th, 2006 With the Wisdom to Touch All Lives Ven. Hungkar Rinpoche with faculty and students of Sha Gong Elementary School Venerable Hung Kar Dorje Rinpoche is returning to the United States in February 2006, and will offer a weekend of teachings on […]
If you or I die first,
let willows still blow silver by the stream,
let frogs hop on the driveway after rain;
let poppies and lathyrus brightly flower,
and pale sweet lilies by the workroom door;
let hawks rise, apples fall,
and jostaberries still be sour;
let coltsfoot come in the chilly spring.
Let all we saw together still persist,
and let whichever of us sees it know
our seeing's still a sharing,
and all goings are the the turnings
of what never was
except our loving made it so.
---Richard Marshall
Joyous Giving, Fearless DeathWhat would you do if you were told by your doctor "to get your affairs in order, you have only 2 months to live."?
That was what Sandra's doctor told her, when she was admitted to the ER last December. And true to the doctor's words, Sandra passed away in February this year. After her funeral, the family put together a memorial website for Sandra. That was when I received a phone call from Muriel, Sandra's mom, and learned about her death.
Sandra Emerling came to help us with our tax-exempt application in 2004 through Pro Bono Partnership in White Plains, NY. She worked in GE Corporate Tax Dept in Connecticut and had volunteered extensively with Pro Bono Partnership and various other organizations. When putting together her memorial website, everyone was amazed to learn of all these countless charities that she had volunteered with.
by Lama Sherab Dorje, at the 1st Buddhism in America Conference 1997 (A participant asked Lama Sherab Dorje what he thought the average person in America would find appealing about "trying to visualize themselves as some guy wearing strange clothes and a funny hat?") Lama Sherab Dorje : Nothing at all. I wouldn't find that […]