The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), along with Indian, Japanese, and Mongolian partners, hosted its third Samvad (which, in Hindi, means … Read More “Mongolia’s Buddhist Diplomacy and India’s Union of Religious and Foreign Policy”
Despite my urgent need to tap into somethingthat is necessary for my time, I am left with a visionof numbers. My pagan … Read More “Daydreamers”
In most schools with a progressive curriculum and solid ethics, students living with disabilities are welcomed, their needs accommodated, and … Read More “Different Abilities, Different Individuals: Shifting Perceptions About Disability”
Understand that even a solar burpis bigger than Planet Earth.And the corona shone. In 250 million yearsit will come around again, even … Read More “Even a Full Moon Needs Sunlight”
While looking for the way, we fall into the only placewhere we can quench our thirst. The way is not out there. … Read More “Falling Into the Well”
On 22 August, I travelled with my wife from Hong Kong to Shenzhen in Mainland China to present a paper … Read More “Woodenfish and Shenzhen: Building Networks with Researchers in Buddhism and Science”
Yellow Janguli. From Facebook Janguli is a Buddhist goddess who protects from snakes and poisons, worshiped in the ancient past … Read More “Janguli: Goddess Protector from Snakes and Poisons”
My core does not speakin Classic Greek hexametersor return to the left margin.It is a scallop shell, a snakeshedding its … Read More “My Core”
Children see melodiescrackling, jumping, stretching,crowding, living like hummingbird bones taking offfrom a cage of suet.They see corn, millet, oats, and sunflowers,devouredinto the bloodstream, … Read More “How Children See”
We grew this way; weare this kind of species. Sculling past the underpasses,just unpreventable fragments ofour former selves. We grew … Read More “We Are This Kind of Species”
