Paraphrasing the Buddhist vow: wounds are numberless; we vow to tend them all. Global pandemic. Economic collapse. Police brutality and social injustice. Climate chaos. Systemic racism and white supremacy. Poverty and hunger. Voter suppression and electoral manipulation. Ecosystems crashing, …
Karma yoga
Programs in a Troubled Time
To paraphrase the Buddhist vow: Wounds are numberless; we vow to tend them all. With so much anguish and pain, remember that all the rivers and oceans of the world are made of tiny mists and drops falling into streams, joining each other, flowing and rising together. All our responses, personal or …
Ram Dass in the Heart
One afternoon in 1986, I was inching my way along in traffic on an LA freeway when I heard Ram Dass being interviewed on KPFK radio. That was trippy. I hadn't heard anything about Ram Dass in years. But the interview pulled me in, and he was giving a talk the next night at the Santa Monica Civic for …