An Outpost From A Complex World

Democracy is failing. Some scholars and politicians suggest that democracy remains in name only as the stresses and strains of economic, pol...

Most of my Sangha has been gone for the week, attending a retreat at Rochester Zen Center, which means there have only been informal sitti...

This morning I decided to visit the Twitter web application settings page -- something I don't do very often since I don't have wir...

Yesterday I wrote my first petition for Change.org instead of just signing them. It's a request to invest effort to reduce conditions t...

There's only one point . There's only one point is the nineteenth of fifty-nine mind training slogans -- the Dalai Lama train...

Grounding. Focus. Strength. Flexibility. = The Four Pillars of True Power in Respectful Confrontation . An important caveat when ...

I'm looking at you from what may as well be the opposite side of the Universe. The realization I need to share is that our world isn...

An Open Letter To Presidential Candidates, the President, Congress and the World: Whether we acknowledge the reality of global warming or no...

The title of this post is derived from of one of the chapter titles of a book that 'jumped out' from the poetry shelves at a ...

I'm about to leave for a meeting next week. Some old favs from poetry days gone by to tide you over. (Any corrections will probably have...