02023-06-06 | Buddhism, Philosophy
Once you get the message, hang up the phone.
—Alan Watts
It is said that when a finger is pointed at moon, one should look at the moon, not the finger.
Ryokan writes about the finger and the moon in the following poem:
Relying upon a finger, we see the moon
Relying upon the moon, we understand the finger.
Moon and finger
Are neither the same nor different.
This expedient analogy is for guiding beginners.
Having seen reality as it is,
There is neither moon nor finger.
You can find out more about his poem here: LINK
More about Ryokan in this Diary: Parallels, Autumn,
02022-11-28 | Buddhism, Lx, Photos, Portugal
May all be happy.
May all be healthy and safe.
May all have enough.
May all be at peace.
This time I didn’t write “beings” because I realized that I want to include mountains and rivers.
I walked by my cactus friend and saw that they were doing well and are even taller than when I saw them in the summer:
I was in a store to investigate and instigate heating/cooling units for my apartment, since it has neither. While there, I saw this little growing pod. This would have looked sooooo futuristic twenty years ago!
I also met a person with a beautiful family name: Vagarinho
It means Little Wanderer in Portuguese.
Same root as Vagrant, which also comes from the Latin word vagari, meaning to wander.
We are all Vagarinhos. :-)
On my way home I walked by a school and saw this on the wall:
“Every person is a World”
02021-12-26 | Buddhism, Photos
This morning I was thinking about my wishes and hopes for the new year when I remembered a saying I heard many years ago. That saying is from India, I learned, and goes like this:
A healthy person has 10,000 wishes, a sick person only one.
There must be many millions of people who all have the same wish. May many of them come true.
When I think of the people who have only one wish it is only logical to also think of other beings who wish to survive, species on the verge of extinction, forests getting wiped out for cattle ranches, and so on.
May all beings be safe
May all beings be healthy
May all beings be happy
May all beings be free
02020-05-25 | Buddhism
Roshi Joan Halifax in conversation with Dan Harris for the Ten Percent Happier broadcast on ABC. Link to podcast.
Roshi is eloquent and sharp and a shining beacon in this time.
02010-09-13 | Buddhism, Interview, Ottmar
Here is the interview I did with Buddhist Geeks.
02009-11-21 | Buddhism, Performance, Slideshow
December 10th:
Digital Dharma preview in New York. An intimate evening of art, music and ispiration.
Click here for more info.
I donated some of my photos to the movie and will perform solo with a new slideshow of my Tibet photos.
