December 2024 Blog Posts (10)

A wish for a brighter world.

Happy New Year!

Let the thousand-year-old oak tree grow green again

Let the earth have crocus skies and white shooting stars in the grass

Let the people and animals breathe out

from…

TOADSTOOL TEA

It's not often you find, a red and white spotted…

I am not sure how or when I began my apprenticeship with sorrow.

I do know that it was my gateway back into the breathing and animate world.

It was through the dark waters of grief that I came to touch my unlived life...

There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what…

Ernest Hemingway once said: In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.

Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows.…

We tend to become complacent. When things are going well, we forget to practice the precious Dharma. When things are not going well, we practice the precious Dharma, albeit feebly. This complacency leads to laziness, which leads to a missed chance to practice this precious Dharma. We forget that we will die. And sooner than we think.…

He built himself a house,

his foundations,

his stones,

his walls,

his roof overhead,

his chimney and smoke,

his view from the window.

He made himself a garden,

his fence,

his thyme,

his earthworm,

his evening dew.

He cut out his bit of sky…

Please don’t live your life scattered hither and dither like a dry leaf blown in the wind. Our ingrown habits have not gotten us the happiness we want, neither for ourselves nor others. Dharma is all about recognizing our dysfunctional habits and transforming them. This requires diligence and constant effort. Laziness erodes our…

There is always a chance to practice Dharma. When we feel well, we remember to practice. When we don’t feel well, we forget to practice. But it is at those times when we face obstacles, usually inner, that the Dharma is most helpful. Dharma is all about transforming our negativities into positive. This goes for our harmful emotions.…

No Hiding Place

In the search for spiritual truth, there’s no room for hiding. Anything that stands in the way of true fulfilment must eventually come into the light. We all carry within us emotional forces…

Trapped by Love of the Unknown

To be trapped by love of the unknown is a sacred submission to life…