Filmmaker Terrence Malick’s most recent release, A Hidden Life, takes place in St. Radegund, a rural Austrian municipality of approximately … Read More ““A Hidden Life”: A Portrait of Non-Violent Action in an Era of Suffering and Spiritual Silence”
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG): You’ve been living in Australia for some decades now. But you have also spent many years building … Read More “Vello Vaartnou: A Life Devoted to Dharma”
can move slabs of sandstone into pyramids, if we want them to. For what pyramid was builtwithout the thought of worshipingforms, in … Read More “Hands of Light”
From 7-8 February, the British Library hosted a conference titled, “Unlocking Buddhist Written Heritage.” This conference featured many veteran names … Read More ““Unlocking Buddhist Written Heritage” at the British Library”
I’ve written briefly about my afternoon at World Religion Day in Hong Kong, which was organized by the local Baha’i … Read More “Love and Unity Must Rise to Meet Sorrow and Anxiety”
petrified metaphors a crow filledmeadow a barrier like a riverboat looking upat the skyhidden fumesin the hysteria of extinctionsomewhere helicoptered away from the deltathose sharp edges likeshoulderbladesthe land of my … Read More “Search and Rescue”
Why am I hereWho sent meWhat secret mission am I on What enemy haveI come to wound with my goodnessWhat quiet darkness in my … Read More “Ferguson”
There is no timeline forshamans we dreamthrough our heartwhile stayingin the centerletting go of the softflow of careswhat we are tryingto … Read More “Tears of Tonglen”
ThatTooTimeless&NewbornCaperingThroughWhat loveCan leave on thoseTraces of EarthEnduringThe rivers andAll that May be trueMaybe.My whole past, too.My heart.The lost partOf the brain.Cutting like a … Read More “Bow & Be”
I am not a Buddhist (neither was he)I am a followerof the neonlight of liberation Free of being rightI strive to seehow my poetry can … Read More “Like Raindrops”
