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jhalifax
Ends and means great question what are we doing to our world this from wendell berry “Once we have reached the desired end, we think, we will turn back to purify and consecrate the means.... More »
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am here in vietnam...... the ghost of war still here will be for a long long time inconceivable what we did dioxin, agent orange birth defects, cancer i think of iraq and depleted uranium in... More »
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dear dear friends, am in bangkok now, on my way to vietnam, where i hvae not been since 1990, when i took a manuscript hidden in my suitcase to monks and nuns at thich nhat... More »
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back home briefly after india spring dense with birdsong punctuated with snow flurries today i walk the pajarito trail to remember my body and put my thoughts straight after a week of demanding work on... More »
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today at the noon service we chanted the daishin dharani in sino-japanese and english (rarely translated, rarely chanted in translation) the eko, or dedication at the end was thus: DEDICATION Buddha Nature pervades... More »
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it is unfathomable a zen center celebrates xmas done it for years, because it is unfathomable. we'd rather drop into a measureless sea than be stranded by dry ideas cooking a feast for all foundlings... More »
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