For World AIDS Day 2021
I wrote this back in 2012 for a class in Seminary. I am posting here unedited, and in it’s entirety. I have been infected since 1989, and disabled since 1995. […]
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I have updated my scheduled events… At least the ones I know about now. I am making a commitment to keep this updated in the new year in a better […]
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I just returned from a week long visit with All Beings Zen Sangha in Washington DC. Last month I was with the Austin Zen Center for a week as well. […]
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Continue readingA Moral Revival
As a queer guy who recalls the days when the idea of “morality” was used by the religious right against queer folks starting with Jerry Falwell’s “Moral Majority”. This ownership […]
Continue readingLoving Kindness Meditation
Loving Kindness Meditation This is what should be accomplished by the one who is wise, Who seeks the good, and has obtained peace. Let one be strenuous, upright, […]
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BLESSING IN THE CHAOS To all that is chaotic in you, let there come silence. Let there be a calming of the clamoring, a stilling of the voices that have […]
Continue readingThis One Time at Radical Dharma Camp
I have been speaking and teaching for years about the practice of Radical Dharma. Not simply as a book, but as a guide to practice and life that brings forth […]
Continue readingHappy Birthday To Me
Today is my birthday. In ancient times Zen monks would mark this day by writing a “death poem”. A death poem is one that tends to offer a reflection on […]
Continue readingThe cost of whiteness?
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work […]
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