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Feb 4, 20235 min read

The Magic of No Escape

Growing up in a Christian world (I was an Anglican choirboy for many of my most impressionable early years), my mind has been suffused...

Nov 27, 20221 min read

Love / Czesław Miłosz

I've had Miłosz' Collected poems sitting on my shelf for decades and just fished that out this evening. He was writing this poem in the...

Nov 3, 20216 min read

Sucitto Thoughts #1

Today is the birthday of one of my early Buddhist teachers, Ajahn Sucitto, who was the abbot of Cittaviveka monastery in East Sussex when...

Mar 5, 20218 min read

Mother Nature doesn’t care about suffering. Buddha does.

I have been really deeply inspired by the experience of leading the Dharma Days for Mindsprings. After my initial introduction to the...

Jan 14, 20216 min read

Language #3: Thinking and Language as the Bridge of Love

NOTE: I think in this last blog I am in some sense arguing myself OUT of a position that I have thoughtlessly held for many years. That...