I’m aware that my phone is too much a part of me. It has happened, mostly, unconsciously. I’m looking at how I want to relate to these technologies, and social media. I’m finding lots of support and insights from somatic healers. All very interesting, and I know it’s important for my health. 🙏🏻

Report from the Field. This was a day for sitting on the rocks. I rolled and rolled through my mala. Om Mani Padme Hum, breath by breath, a reliable comfort, and drifting in and out of Tonglen for the people of Iran. #peace #tonglen #NoWar

“Never any money for universal health care, but always infinite billions available on a dime for war for oil and minerals. Regime change begins at home.” ~ Dan Wentzel

It’s not that war never ends *well*. It’s that war never ends, period. Once you buy its logic, it owns you. The only way out of it is an entirely different way of thinking, a different way of framing humanity, and none of these men are capable of anything but tired logic.

Thoughts are not the problem. The problem is our misuse of thoughts. That we try to create something enduring out of thoughts but thoughts are always transient. That is really the central point to be aware of…..that when the thought has gone, you are still there. ~ James Low #meditation

A mystery. I don’t understand how I have 4K followers. I joined BSky, and boom - that first day I had 4K followers. Not possible. This puzzles me since my interactions are with just you guys, about 25-30 of us. It’s a little creepy.

I’m posting this for anyone who wants to hear directly from the horse’s mouth. Because Republicans refused a public hearing, Hilary Clinton walked out of her deposition, spoke to reporters and the public. She described in detail how the hearing unfolded and the questions she was asked. #Epstein

It’s been 429 days since I stopped watching corporate media and cable news. There’s a different rhythm now. I haven’t disconnected from the world. If anything, I feel more present to it. More steady. This has given me back something I didn’t know I was missing. 🙏🏻

Goodnight…sending peace your way..

Report from the Field. Ten days of rain. Then sunshine and light. Then ocean. Today I walked and walked at low tide. My little dogs shook off ten days of being inside. My nervous system softens. My breath deepens. Outer openness invites inner openness. We are porous beings. #ocean #peace

Accidental Hungry Ghost puja.

Dedicate your actions to the benefit of all beings. Send all beings light. Live for the happiness of all beings. So you get the energy of light." ~ Patrul Rinpoche

From my cushion, the SOTU was predictably mob-boss energy. But then Trump slides in a new government program, branded with his name. That’s new territory for a democracy. He’s not a King. Who tells him? Worth paying attention. ⬇️ Trumpaccounts.gov

Report from the Field. This ⬇️

It kills me every damn time. #grammar #Virgo

Report from the Field. It’s been about 10 days of mostly consistent rain @Northern CA coast. The forest, and inhabitants, know how to abide. It’s their Shamatha practice. Observing these forest lessons, and this morning - prasad. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Sunshine! Every bird is in motion! #shamatha #forest #ecodharma

This is how I am now. And this is how I am now. And this is how I am now. And this is how I am now. And so on. Like the sky, my true state is constantly changing. I’m in constant awareness of myself.

Each one of us is allowed to show as much of ourselves or as little of ourselves to the world, as we choose. You're not here to fit inside of any box or answer to any labels others might have for you. Just be a decent human being and live your life doing what feels right for you. ~ heybleu

Report from The Field. 🙏🏻 Thank you for your inspirations, art, insights, connections this week. Lots of moving parts here with intense weather and freezing temps. Our sangha met despite it all. May sunshine find us here in the trees and where you are. May the fog clear from our road and our minds!

What a way to end this week! Prepare to be hooked on this beat! PEACE! ☮️ PEACE ☮️ On repeat. 🙏🏻

I follow journalists and trusted sites for reporting. It’s like tasting bad medicine most days so I limit it, but this so-obvious quote: 🎯 “Trump’s worldview: institutions don’t have independent legitimacy; they have performance expectations…and the metric is whether they serve him.”

⬇️ Today I learned this AI prompt: CREATE A HIGH CONTRAST CLOSE PORTRAIT OF MY DOG FOCUSING ON THE FRONT HEAD IN BLACK AND WHITE CLOSE UP. 35MM LENS 4K HD QUALITY GIVING PROUD EXPRESSION BLACK SHADOW BACKGROUND ONLY FACE IS VISIBLE WITH PROfiLE LOOKING SHARPENED. RATIO 4:3.” #AI #Photography

The British Royal Family is more available for karmic consequence than the American Oligarchy. Let that sink in.

“The majority of people find many excuses not to work on themselves. They are in a complete prison of their weaknesses. Understand me right, I do not need followers, I am rather interested in finding the real warriors of the new world.” - Gurdjieff

Report from the Field. It’s rained hard, constantly, no breaks for almost 3 days. Thunder boomed several times, shook us awake. There are nests in the trees, on limbs that bend with the winds. No activity though. All the forest is hunkered down. We wait. #Nature #Retreat #Peace #meditate

This is the quiet alchemy of the path: nothing is conquered, everything is welcomed. When kindness meets what once frightened us, separation dissolves and the heart remembers its true size. Enlightenment is not escape, it is intimacy with all that arises. ~ Zenzi Sewaah

The contributions Jesse Jackson made are staggering to my generation. The very push for all of the Civil Rights that my generation in the 1980s grew up believing in. He was a true pillar of American Democracy the past 50 years. He made it real. RIP to the great Reverend. 💔

May all beings be free of suffering And the causes of suffering. Happy Losar 🙏🏻

Everything that you are feeling, name it love. ~ Andrea Gibson #quantumField #coherence #mahamudra

Report from the Field. This move to the Forest is a healing journey. Everything moves slowly, watched over by birds, deer, turkeys and fox. No lights until the sun goes down. A ritual now, we light a candle, sit and watch the day end. We’re not settled yet but it’s happening. 🙏🏻 #coherence #meditate

At my daughter’s school they celebrate “friendship day“ rather than Valentine’s Day, so no one feels left out. Whatever form relational love takes for you today, may you feel warm hearted and connected and may we always remember that love is never a transaction.

I miss my teacher tonight. I miss his monastery in Vancouver, the quiet groundedness of the daily schedule. It’s where I took vows. I’m feeling nostalgic for the physical, a building, for the sweetness, the sangha. Big feels passing through. Goodnight! #ThranguRinpoche #Dharma #Guru #Kagyu

Friends, imagine we could publish this letter in every media outlet everywhere? That it was recited by politicians, news anchors, teachers, podcasts? I wish it could go viral, globally. 🙏🏻 #PamBondi #DOJ #EpsteinFiles #MAGA #Trump

Had a productive meeting at the Munich Security Conference with Danish Foreign Affairs Minister @lars-loekke.bsky.social. No matter who's in the White House, California will always be a steady partner committed to shared democratic values, climate action, and economic cooperation.

Peace over America "An American flag with rainbow peace signs in the stars and stripes over cloudy sky"

Engaged Buddhism has many definitions…..

There are some books you keep close and revisit again and again. On my desk always, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche’s volume, Essential Practice, is one of them. I love a Q&A format. Rinpoche was so young in this photo! 🙏🏻 #dharma #kagyu #BuddhaDharma #ThranguRinpoche #Buddhism

A friend sent me a TikTok by Alex de Wal, Executive Director of WorldPeace Foundation (link in comments ⬇️) and it’s spot on. As institutions and norms burn down around us, I look to the macro. The TikTok clip is his in a nutshell’. This essay, also excellent. #Epstein

My fantasy: the Walk For Peace monks and helpers are celebrated at the WH, our President welcoming them, news media sharing their stories of the walk, encounters, the lessons. A celebration of respect and gratitude. And then I remembered….it’s not like that anymore. #WalkForPeace #Respect

To our friends in BC, members of our sangha there, may you find a way forward from the unimaginable pain and senseless violence in Tumbler Ridge. Prayers are flowing towards you. 🙏🏻🇨🇦

Nonprofit news and journalism is now imperative and needs our support. There’s a great list ⬇️ in the article. #nonprofitnews #freespeech #immigration #journalism

Report from the Field. Seems to me the letting go is the central practice of low impact living. During a radical move, bring Arnica cream. #forestreporter #minimalism #ecodharma #Buddhist

"Buddha-Nature exists in everyone no matter how deeply it may be covered over by greed, anger and foolishness, or buried by deeds and retribution. Buddha-Nature cannot be lost or destroyed; and when all defilements are removed, sooner or later it will reappear." ✨ His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Watching BadBunny, I felt an honest-to-goodness shiver up my spine. I felt so proud for his protest and praise of America. It was art. An All-American moment. But there is always the other America, the FoxNews take. Also a shiver up my spine. #BadBunny

In recent days, false information has been circulating online, wrongly linking His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to the Epstein files. To address these claims, Tibet Radio spoke with Lobsang Gyatso Sither, Tibet Action's Director of Technology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCv9...

Report from the Field. The ocean is over beyond the trees, and it brings in the fog. The branches of the trees all moving ever so slightly pulling the moisture into the forest. Cooler, too. Rain coming this week. #ecodharma #ecopsycology #forestreporter

Bad Bunny wore a bullet-proof, vest under his tuxedo, at the Grammy Awards. Today, please visualize him being safe at his half-time performance. 🙏🏻 We all know this is about way more than entertainment. May there be peace today. ☮️ #BadBunny #SuperBowl #Peace