Writing

Blessing in the Chaos

Published on Dec 11th, 2018 in Dharma Teaching, Reflection

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 laid their claim on you, that have made their home in you, that go with you even to the holy places but will not let […]

Looking For Work

Published on Dec 5th, 2018 in News

For those of you who don’t know, I have been trying to support myself as a Dharma Teacher for a few years now.  This is likely not going to grow into something that will support me fully.  So with that in mind I am trying to find work that will be in accord with my […]

Fundraising

Published on Oct 24th, 2018 in News

Hello Friends, I am fundraising to cover my costs for my trip to teach with Lama Rod Owens at Brooklyn Zen Center at the beginning of November (See link here) as well as to get to Belfast Northern Ireland in December.  If you can donate that would be great.  You can either use my donation […]

Dharma Talk: white man’s Accountability on Stolen Land

Published on Oct 24th, 2018 in Dharma Teaching, Media

Below is a Dharma Talk given at Access to Zen on October 8, 2018. Titled white man’s Accountability on Stolen Land  

Dharma Talk: Practice Beyond Meditation

Published on Sep 15th, 2018 in Dharma Teaching, Media

A Dharma Talk given at Gay Buddhist Fellowship on August 12,2018

An old talk from 2012 on Sex

Published on Jun 30th, 2018 in Dharma Teaching, Media

This One Time at Radical Dharma Camp

Published on Jun 2nd, 2018 in Dharma Teaching, News, Reflection

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 the truth of oppression, power, privilege, and unconscious bias. It also offers a way to liberation and love that in my experience is deep, wide […]

Happy Birthday To Me

Published on Apr 3rd, 2018 in Dharma Teaching, Reflection

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 death that is often coupled with a meaningful observation on life.  Given my own history, I think I have a different view.  I have now […]

The cost of whiteness?

Published on Mar 15th, 2018 in Dharma Teaching, Reflection

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 together.  – Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970s I believe that my liberation as a disabled, queer, poor person is directly tied to the liberation of […]

A Question

Published on Feb 23rd, 2018 in Dharma Teaching, Reflection

The other day I found myself in discussion with a group of smart folks in which a dialogue developed around “speaking up” and particularly around repeatedly bringing something up.  This brought up for me, yet again, an ongoing question that I often notice come up, particularly, when I am in conflict with other folks I […]