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Category Archives: Non-violence
Burning snow
As I stood under the shower’s spray this evening, allowing the warm water to wash away the day’s dust and travel, I found that as the dirt left me, so did peace and security.
Thich Nhat Hahn and the Energy of Anger
In 1995, one of America’s respected spiritual leaders, Ram Dass, interviewed Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh about anger, about violence, and about the simple ways (not easy, but simple) in which each of us may live better, supporting a peaceful home, peaceful neighborhood, and peaceful nation. While it lasts, the interview from YouTube is linked below. …
The Fallen
A walk through the Boston Common in the fall of 2005. Our nation was still numbed and dumbed into the facile acceptance of a war that was not a war; a police action where no one managed the police; an act of mercy where there was no mercy. The only way to follow such a …
Pain as Teacher
Many Buddhist traditions share a specific practice for opening the eyes, opening the eyes of the heart. If you follow the path of enlightenment that Gautama Buddha walked, one who wishes to be free of entangling thoughts and desires — desire for the next and better car, the other better house, a different and better …
Harmony
The heart is torn by wind. When the heart-wind rises, true words are taken and replaced with falsehoods. That is the way of the wind. It is harder for the one afflicted, even, than it is for those he or she accosts: the heart is torn by wind, and the words and deeds which proceed …
Violence
There are many pleasant notions that present themselves, on one's walk through any given day, present themselves like flowers holding their faces to the summer sun… should you choose to look at them, they are there. To disemburden the heart requires practice, however, and patience, as well as a disciplined mind to keep cloud or …
Your Son Out There
The boys are taking numbers to stand in line again born with an open hand which of them will be men today and draw a card that wins? They're looking for a future looking for their rising star to shine above the fields a voice shouts from the doorway "C'mon in, boy, you're hired." They …