A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
"You can keep you emotional heart open, so that it is breaking moment after moment after moment. Yet beyond the unbearable, here we still are. As you continue on the spiritual path, you are able to look at the immensity of suffering without turning away."
Enlightenment isn’t something you and I can earn like a black belt in karate or a best film award; it’s a process, always unfolding everywhere, that involves us all.
