My Friends, The Birds Broad-Billed Hummingbird (Male), Santa Rita Lodge, Madera Canyon, Near Green Valley, Arizona Recently, and for some time, I have been discovering small “gifts” left for me by birds accustomed to feeding at my sunflower-seed feeder. Since I installed the feeder years ago it has been the target of local birds by…
Jaguar and Hummingbird
Jaguar and Hummingbird A Mesoamerican fable credited to the Mayan and Aztec civilizations of Mexico and Guatemala has been passed through generations from ancient times. Like fables told everywhere, it conveys symbols and profound truths that are not immediately apparent to the uninitiated. Investigating the story, we can see universal facts of a sophisticated and…
The Wish-Granting Jewel
The Wish-Granting Jewel, known forever and sought, comes unbidden to the sincere, compassionate, and brave . Awakened to the Law, that jewel within the Lotus.
Moon Viewing on Fuji Mountain
Moon Viewing on Fuji Mountain. We had been travelling for almost 24 hours when we arrived at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. Flying over the ocean with a large group of pilgrims from Los Angeles, the natural fatigue of jet lag air travel had caught up with me. My weeks of preparation ahead of our journey had…
The Bodhisattva
To be willing to risk everything,To awaken even in the darkest hours,To be fearless - even reckless,To pursue adventure with illumination,To abide in faith for eons. To seek my mentor over lifetimes,To polish my character,To give encouragement and hope,To boldly carve a path for others,To attract fortune from afar. To be Buddha I AM,To…
Depictions of the Awakened
Wheels, Footprints, Empty Cushions, Statues, Mandalas, Metaphors of the Mind - All Experiences of the imagination In the world of transient, non-substantial, nothing. Molded armors match our bodies -Protect and define our mortal ego. Without them we vaporize Into forever. The everlasting dreams of our existence disappear with Awakening.
I Wish to Work Miracles
I wish to work miracles; - it may be that I shall possess less than other men of more peaceful lives, or than those who want to grow rich in a day. I may live for a long time in great poverty, as always happens, and to all eternity will happen, to alchemists, the would-be…
The Region of the Unfathomable.
I. We youthful warriors walk into the mountains to conquer the highest peak, determined to challenge the world, . We climb ever higher along clear mountain streams, rapidly tumbling along the boulders in a never-ending flow behind and ahead – up and up to the tree-line of the high-sierra and beyond, far above the distant…
My Japanese Screen
My Japanese screen Cloudy, transparent shadows Spying in and out
Tears to the National Anthem
The following is the story of my first encounter with the Iranian Revolution of the late 1970's. The events depicted are true. Prior to these events I had no association or knowledge of Iran or its people. Since that day, I am surrounded by the history and human drama stemming from this watershed moment. Watching…
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