A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Some
people have the idea that practicing Zen or any religion is becoming
God or Buddha, or even “becoming a good person.” But if you are grasping
to become “enlightened,” it’s like putting icing over a mold of cow
manure. Instead, we need to let our cow manure become compost.
Explore
the vibrant lives of up to 75,000 Himalayans in Jackson Heights,
Queens—the most linguistically diverse zip code in the U.S. Our latest
Film Club pick directed by Kesang Tseten reveals how these communities
honor their traditions while embracing new lives in America.
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