Eva Libre's Blog – January 2022 Archive (6)

Dalai Lama

I am now 86 years old. At the age of 16…

Beloved engaged Buddhist teacher and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away today, at the age of 95.

The International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism writes, "our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away peacefully at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, at 00:00hrs on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95. We invite our global spiritual family to take a few moments to be still, to come back to our mindful breathing, as we together hold Thay in our hearts…

Sat there and drove

Dreamed the car was freshly painted

the world round and good

as the Buddha

The sky through the box was the same color

as a pale slide from the 70's

I was not crazy

Not locked up

Self-chosen loneliness and in it I traveled

Without apology, I drove out through dreamy streets

Captured a thriving…

Painting by Emil Nolde

"You will never know that your soul travels

sweetly sheltered in the depths of my heart,

and that nothing, neither time nor age nor other loves,

It will prevent you from ever existing.

Now the beauty of the world takes your face,

it feeds on your…

The Year of Rumi's poems, translated by Andrew Harvey, is over.

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The State of Maine just took cottage food laws to the next level.

In addition to being allowed to sell non-perishable jellies, candies and baked goods prepared at home, the citizens of Maine now have a constitutional right to buy, barter or trade foods like raw milk straight from the cow and meat slaughtered in their neighbor’s…