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Poems Speaking to One Another (Video)
Dear Friends, In this talk, I tell stories about Miaozong, the amazing twelfth-century Zen teacher who was the first officially recognized female Zen…
May 9
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Can You Point to Anything That is Not a Gift?
Poison — which is how the German language sees the gift. But can you point to anything that is not a gift? This begets that. A spring rain is drizzling…
May 2
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Can You Point to Anything That is Not a Gift?
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April 2024
Taking a Breath
Dear Friends, I’m taking time off this week! Phew! A good friend and reader recently told that she couldn’t quite keep up with all of the letters I…
Apr 25
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Ways of Seeing: The Mountain
Dear Friends, What happens when we look and then look again, daily, weekly, monthly for years, for a lifetime? The painter and poet Etel Adnan fell in…
Apr 18
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Loverboy
Dear Friends, On Sunday I took a day off and drove north through the extravagant spring of forsythia and blooming trees to spend some time at Dia…
Apr 12
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What's Your Weather?
Dear Friends An experiment! I’ve been wanting to say hello and to have another conversation with everyone who has been reading. I’ve started a chat for…
Apr 4
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March 2024
Paragraphs for Spring
Dear Friends, In my Zen life, I’ve been teaching Zen poetry and the poetic-philosophical works of Eihei Dogen where I’ve found a welling of spring…
Mar 28
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Vija Celmins's Time
Dear Friends, With the spring equinox, winter is receding. However, Winter — artist Vija Celmin’s exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York — will…
Mar 21
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Two Oracular Paragraphs & an Invitation
Dear Friends, This week I feel as if I’ve forgotten how to write. It’s time to go back into the stream, to enter the waters. One way I do this is by…
Mar 14
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Ways of Seeing: The River
Dear Friends, For those who have joined us recently, welcome! “Ways of Seeing” is a series of inspirations and practical exercises for deepening…
Mar 7
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February 2024
Moon on the Water: Dogen's Genjo Koan
Dear Friends As some of you may know I’m teaching a course on the poetic essays of Eihei Dogen. Why Dogen? If you’re not around Zen all the time, his…
Feb 29
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Taylor Mac's Fabulous City
Dear Friends, I’ve been thinking these days about the why of life. I’ve been feeling a certain dryness of the spirit, as the old saints used to call it…
Feb 22
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