Last Sunday I attended World Religion Day 2020, which was co-organized by the Baha’i Community of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Network on Religious Peace. While our cosmopolitan city has (in my opinion) a ways to go in catching up with New York or London in terms of culture, there is one field in […]
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Vajravarahi and Her Consorts
Vajravari in union with her consorts Vajravarahi (Tib. Dorje Phagmo) is a wrathful aspect of the Tantric goddess Vajrayogini. Vajravarahi can be translated as “diamond sow.” She symbolizes the supreme power that removes all obstacles on the path to enlightenment, as well as the passion, compassion, and wisdom that overcomes ignorance and attachment to the […]
Olympic
Chinook salmon chant on sandstoneintestine-intuition in an agebefore teachers they emanatefrom the roots of the Naupakalike sea spray George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall […]
Filmmaker Lowery’s Visual Depiction of Samsara in “A Ghost Story”
In his spectacular and original picture A Ghost Story, filmmaker David Lowery illustrates what happens to those who are unable to let go. Apparently Lowery had always wanted to make a movie about ghosts—yet instead of falling back on the stereotypical ghost as the terrifying and unpalpable “other,” he subverts the genre by having the […]
A Thought I Had While Swimming in Kimbe Bay
what use is the proper use of human beings to chase after each otherlike children after dragonflies to devote ourselves to each otherlike wooden idols on a totem pole to unlock each other’s mysterieslike keys forged in a closed foundry to be extreme with each otherlike we see on television to be tornadoes in each other’s waylike […]
Budding Buddha: A Conversation with Artist James Stanford
James Stanford, “Budding Buddha.” From artfixdaily.com James Stanford is a longtime Buddhist artist with a distinct aesthetic and inspiration. Last November, he donated his “Budding Buddha” art to the Art for Tibet exhibit and auction at Gallery Eight in New York, which was organized by Students for a Free Tibet. Can you describe a bit your background in […]
Conversion
Wild and silent asthe desert of an arcticlandscape, the one eventthat never happens the wayit is supposed to. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters […]
Patriotism and Other Myths
At some point, there has to be apoint. A reason why. But what if the reasonwhy is why there isno reason? What if there is nothingbut suffering heroes hopingthat their suffering will makea difference, yet knowingthat it doesn’t mean adamn. They do it anyway. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been […]
What We Need to Dream
sharing the same earthwe share the same water breathing the same airwe need the same soil we need birdsto feel and to loveso little separates us fromwhat we need to dream George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John […]
My Brother’s Knife
Photo by Hunter Jessie Deuel. From Pinterest I still have the fishingknife he dropped offin the parking lot ofthe Greyhound station. An initialed knife with aleather handle and skeletalwhite blade that doesn’t belongto anyone, not even the Marines. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications […]