Meditation is a kind of medicine - its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation; then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.

Then what will be the quality? Watchfully, alert, joyously, unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks ( Read more... )

1. "Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
   -- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Buddha has chosen one of the really very potential words - shunyata. The English word, the English equivalent, "nothingness", is not such a beautiful word. That's why I would like to make it "no-thingness" - because the nothing is not just nothing, it is all. It is vibrant with all possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is ( Read more... )

My condolences and prayers are with Joleen and her family for their loss.  I know that Jodi's precious soul will be at peace now.

I'm so sorry, Joleen.

1. Have you ever been searched by the cops?
No.  And I don't ever want to be, either.

2. Do you close your eyes on roller coasters?
No way!   I wanna see it all!

3. When's the last time you've been sledding?
I was sixteen at Boreal Ridge and Mary, my best friend, and I hung onto each other…and forgot to hold onto the sled.   We went flying off ( Read more... )

...I don't know how it will be in the years to come.  There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know.  Some of those forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.  It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than ( Read more... )

Last week I sent my three-song set into the Eagle and Tom Nakashima, the afternoon dj, chose my set to play today.  It was a fun game to participate in, 'cause old Tom called me a few days ago and we talked a bit.  Friendly fellow, and easy to talk to.  He recorded what we said, and played some of it on air this afternoon.  Oh, and I was so mad at ( Read more... )

John and I went shopping at the CoOp this afternoon.  People always know John, and talk to him.  He's one of those people who walks into someplace and at least two people call out, "Hi, John!".  I'm one of those people who walks into a place and gets shy and quiet and have to force myself to look up and smile at people I've seen around for ten ( Read more... )

"Sierra's pregnant! I'm going to be a daddy!" - that's what Heroin Dave announced to me one night as I walked into the bar. He was bouncing, beaming so hard his usual mustard-toned skin was flushed lightly pink. Heroin Dave talked about his girlfriend Sierra frequently. Every other sentence, he'd refer to her. "Sierra says...", or "Sierra ( Read more... )