Things categorized as 'death'
Posted on October 5th .
I was away from news sources for a while and I was slow to catch up. However, it didn't escape even my notice that this month is breast cancer awareness ...
Posted on September 28th .
The other night, in conversation, I started quoting John Donne's "From the round earth's imagined corners" etc. Donne always was a poet of the grave. His "Meditations Upon Emergent Occasions" ...
Posted on September 28th .
It was suggested to me that I take some of the discussion on the workings of Chöd here, as a dharma posting. I must confess, organizing my thoughts amidst the ...
Posted on September 16th .
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From: The Life of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, by Matthieu Ricard
In early 1991, Khyentse Rinpoche began to show the first signs of ill health while teaching in Bodhgaya. Completing ...
Posted on September 7th .
Right after L. was born, I looked into his eyes and saw the adult he was going to become. Because a soul is arriving, fresh from his time in ...
Posted on September 7th .
I started writing something about how, in the View, everything is one taste. But I put that aside and it sat in my "drafts" list for a time. In Read More →
Posted on September 6th .
We're settling into the habit of saying the selichot, penitential prayers. Increasingly I feel that teshuvah is a matter of becoming conscious of others and of remaining in that view. ...
Posted on September 6th .
Today's the day the Gergiev Festival starts, and over the last few days the house has been awash with music from the pieces D. has to perform. One of these ...
Posted on September 5th .
This afternoon, someone died at my feet. I was changing to another bus at the corner of Rue du Petit Pont and Quai de Montebello. If you want to turn ...
Posted on September 4th .
Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager (Vaan) is the quintessential bard of Rotterdam. Much more than Jules Deelder is. Of course he's famous for one of his epigrams from "Made in Madurodam" ...
