In recent days, my attention’s been strongly drawn to transitions. Maybe it’s because the new school year just began. Maybe because my girlfriend and I broke up a couple of months ago. Maybe because the swirling snow stinging my eyes yesterday – a record for the area’s earliest snowfall – brought home the change of [...]
A few years ago, I was in Central America leading a very small group of Michigan alumni on a tour of Mayan ruins. These folks were mostly retirees, some even in their 80s. Our trip took us to Belize at one point, where we stayed in some beautiful cottages on Chaa Creek in the middle [...]
Dharma is a Sanskrit word that originally just meant “Natural Law” or “Reality.” However, as adopted in various religious and spiritual contexts, dharma has also come to mean something like the “way of higher truth,” as well as “teaching,” “law” or “duty”. In Zen Buddhism, the dharma refers to the way things are, and also [...]