You are not living unless youhave at least one crisis beforebreakfast. The crisis of adventure. The crisis of receiving supernatural aid. The crisis of not receiving it. The crisis of meeting with the Goddess and being spit on. Or being embraced likea child. The crisis of faith that is not knowinghow much faith is enough, and when […]
A Pandemic of Hope
As fast as the virus and then some, Love is spreading. In the hands of doctors and nurses, it spreads. Through the central nervous systemof the species like an electric shock. Love grows with invisible power. Love is spreading. Everywhere, in more places than the virus could ever be, Love is taking over. We are on lock down andLove is our […]
Chi
It felt like cupping a shapelessbubble, delicate as a stolen Robin’s egg,yet weightless and resting in nothingness. I should have known it was within me.
Full of Noise
the call often comes when we refuse it. On some mornings it comes as an orange sitting ripe on the table.
The Call
comes when you are waitingfor the shower and disinfection, and when you reach the bottom of the sinkwithout clothes, shoes, or even hair. The call comes when you are baptized with a number. The numbers told everything. For they told the world, in particular, how yourefused to let yourself live without its sorrow. A blessing that […]
What I Have Faith In
The bending of starlightand my next breath, givenunto me as the heart is givenunto the chest. Or the summer moon is given unto the Comanchewarrior. And I have faith in you kissing me, under violets and lady’sslipper, in the wild gardens of Acadia, where dancing butterflies dare to land.
International Women’s Day: Inspiring Freedom
By Stella Roos Peters 8 March 2020 was International Women’s Day, on which women made their voices heard around the world. Women and men around the world participated in protests, marches, and demonstrations calling for gender justice in all its forms. The topics at the forefront were equal pay, equal opportunity, holding gender violence accountable, […]
COVID-19: A Moment of Awakening for the World
By Tsering Namgyal Tsering Namgyal, a Buddhistdoor Global columnist, is the author of The Tibetan Suitcase: A Novel. He was previously a financial journalist based in Hong Kong. As a business journalist who also happens to be a Buddhist, it is easy indulge in some navel-gazing while observing the world reel at the catastrophic effects […]
Ebola
There is respectand there is that snot dripping, wrist shaking,stuttering, knees buckling, heart pounding, eyelid swelling, tears pouring, speechlessrespect. The kind I have for health workers in Liberia. They foughtthe virus when the militias fought them.They turned up when others tuned out.
I Know You Know
I accepted your apologyimplicitly, but the aftertasteof those emails stuck inbetween my teeth like a kernel of popcorn. I tried topick it out, you know I did.Yet, it remains below the crevice of the gums, a halfburied fleck of fake gold.