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.
Gratitude, by promoting feelings of satisfaction with what you have, counters feelings of insecurity and pulls us out of the rat race. It shifts our focus from what’s missing to what’s there.
Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, “Coming from Gratitude”
This month's Film Club pick traces the transmission of Zen meditation through the life’s work of 90-year-old Irish-American Jesuit Zen Master Robert Kennedy, highlighting key historical moments in the ever-evolving story of the coming of Zen to the West.
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