Fierce Dandelions

We humans tend to cherish our opinions. Sometimes, we'll do anything to either protect them or make them known in the world. It can get...

The world of appearances is filled with the three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance. Sometimes, our closest people have betrayed us. ...

Arun posted an excellent commentary by another Buddhist writer, Dolma, on his blog recently. It takes up the sticky issue of anger, in part...

Image from Crazy Dog T-shirts . Here's are really interesting Q and A from Trungpa Rinpoche's book Cutting Through Spiritual Materia...

The title of one of Reb Anderson Roshi's books, Being Upright, often comes to mind when I think about conflict in my own life. Many time...

I got a bit of a dressing down early this afternoon. A group of folks were discussing the current tent ban for the plaza we are holding Occu...

I almost never delete a post once I put it up, but after reading and responding to a comment by Robyn, a regular reader here, I realized tha...

I have been writing this blog for a little over two years now. Being a writer has been part of my life since I was a young kid scrawling goo...