Why am I hereWho sent meWhat secret mission am I on What enemy haveI come to wound with my goodness What quiet darkness in my heart have I come to rattle with the drumming light of activism I awaited this hourlike the wind grows out of the stillness
Tears of Tonglen
There is no timeline forshamans we dreamthrough our heart while stayingin the center letting go of the softflow of cares what we are tryingto hold without being together
Bow & Be
ThatToo Timeless&Newborn CaperingThrough What loveCan leave on those Traces of Earth EnduringThe rivers and All that May be true Maybe.My whole past, too. My heart.The lost part Of the brain.Cutting like a Samurai’s sword Touching the grassOr taking off a tight shoe Death the wayRam Dass felt it.
Like Raindrops
I am not a Buddhist (neither was he) I am a followerof the neonlight of liberation Free of being rightI strive to see how my poetry can hold many truths, all of them sentenced todeath
Driving Through Seattle
Drizzled.Plundered.Poured.Like sunlight.Like religion.Like sleet againsta car window.I am a gorgeouscatastrophe
Celebration and Mourning: Two Sides of Togetherness
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 […]
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 sandstone intestine-intuition in an agebefore teachers they emanatefrom the roots of the Naupakalike sea spray
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 […]