Meditations

How can such a powerful creature as man be comprised of such puny creatures as humans? How can such puny creatures as humans compose such a powerful creature as man?…

This town of about 100,000 in northern California is atmospherically downstream from huge fires—the Carr fire about an hour away near Redding, which has killed 7 people and is beginning…

Meditation is inherently solitary. Even when people sit in groups, the intent is to be alone within. Insight inquiry, on the other hand, involves two or more people questioning and…

An ominous, orangish haze hangs over northern California. The Carr fire has obliterated the normally azure skies and made the atmosphere physically unhealthy and metaphysically surreal.

The full moon is blood red, in hellish eclipse from the fires near here that killed a grandmother and her two small grandchildren. Literally and metaphorically, the world is on…

The clouds clear, and strong sunlight and intense shadows return to the parkland. The big sycamore leaves and the little oak leaves hang motionless in a bright blue sky.

Lately I’ve been talking about once a week via skype with my radiki in Tanzania, Emmanuel. He’s 27, and works in the environmental sector helping villagers in his region with…

Over 40 years ago, in my early 20’s, I looked at the way things were going in the culture and with man’s destruction of the planet, and decided I didn’t…