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.
Objects alone don’t make the sacred. People do, and careful attention. The Buddha did not first taste enlightenment while meditating in a temple. He was sitting on a pile of straw outside, touching the earth, and seeing the morning star.