Word.

I pulled over on the ride home, with my mighty iPhone camera. Deep bow to Highway 1 and Tomales Bay. 🙏🏻 sending this gentle energy to you.

“ Queue the monkeys. Your thoughts run around like a wild horse, your feelings jump about like a monkey in the forest. When the monkey and horse step back and reflect upon themselves, freedom from all discrimination is realized naturally.“ - Dogen, "Instructions for the Tenzo"

May Day! 🌈 Friends, this weekend’s Full Moon is hugely auspicious, and while we won’t share it at the same moment, I like the thought of us turning toward it, wherever we are. 🙏🏻 Btw, I’m new to Beltane gatherings, and heading to a drumming circle in the forest. I’ll report back. 🪘☮️

There is something infinite inside you. Take refuge there. #thursdaythoughts

“Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we are also potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear, but going beyond fear.”   - Chögyam Trungpa

I did a thing. Someone said a tattoo is an act of creating a personal cartography. I liked that. My first ink happened at 56 years old when I finally understood why I wanted it. This one comes after two years of contemplation, for my 70th rotation. 🙏🏻 #ink #tattoo

It’s likely a fact that the rainbow was photoshopped but, no matter. The intention touches my heart. The Rainbow Buddha within. It is one of my favorite images. 🙏🏻 May this be a wonderful week for you and me.

These days, one also needs to be very wary of (mostly) men whose gods are algorithms living in machines.

The CCP's new “ethnic unity” law is thinly veiled cultural assimilation. #savetibet A group of 8 UN special rapporteurs is challenging China’s Sinicization of #Tibetans and other ethnic communities. Read more: savetibet.org/un-experts-c...

This.

Here’s the thing that deconstructs institutional religion, for me. We’re not a brief arrangement of atoms experiencing the universe. We’re the universe briefly arranged into a form that can experience itself. There’s no old man on a cloud watching us.

My UAP/UltraTerrestrial physicist friend alerted me to author/researcher/activist, David Wilcox’s death, on 4/20. His longtime co-author, Wynn Free, died unexpectedly, on 4/18. Given the 12 missing scientists from the fields of anti-gravity, free energy and plasmoid utilizations, I’m not surprised.

Trying not to speculate while knowing exactly what everyone's speculation is.

You don’t have to be a vegetarian to be a Buddhist, but it certainly helps the beings you decide not to eat. Zen Graffiti Goodnight everyone sleep tight.

Rare experience here in this redwood forest, a fire and friends around said fire. 🙏🏻 Tonight, after a moist day of mist and fog, friends invited us over. We were all overwhelmed at our good fortune. Deep bow to Fire. Such a phenomena.

It’s a cold snap here on the Northern California coast, foggy and misty in the forest. Staying in, padding around, might write some letters. My goal is unproductivity. I hope your weekend is peaceful...

“ Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you ‘fight for.' It’s ‘fighting for peace' that starts the wars. Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace, there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace, and everyone will be at peace.” ~Thomas Merton

With all hands on deck to fight the climate crisis, California is thrilled to join the International Union for Conservation of Nature. While Donald Trump sides with Big Oil, California is working with global partners to cut pollution, protect biodiversity, and deliver real climate solutions.

In this article, The Twelve Aspiration Prayers. Years ago, I wrote them in my prayer journal and for me, writing by hand, intentionally, it somehow imprints for me. Great offering here. 🙏🏻 #Dharma #Buddhadharma #ecodharma #Bohdisattva

I went to the beach at low tide and they had to come home with me.

If you are going to be present you have to let the past go. - James Low

EcoDharma combines care and stewardship of our planet with the teachings of the Buddha. As the Buddha put his hand on the earth as his witness and protection against evil under the Bodhi tree, Buddhism has always been grounded in eco awareness, literally!

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” — Arthur C. Clarke

"Dearly beloved. We are gathered here today. To get through this thing called life." -- Prince, who died #OTD 2016

Taking care of each other right now is a great act of compassionate rebellion. ~ Ethan Nichtern

The mystery.

Friends, may this new week be kind to you. 🙏🏻 #Monday #dogs

“The U.S. has changed, and we must respond.” ~ Mark Carney, Canada 🇨🇦 No hedging. No “our American friends.” Just a clean acknowledgement that the country on the other side of the border is not the country we thought we knew."

Plz remind the public that REPUBLICANS enable every crime Trump does. And they share responsibility.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche: “Before I answer your questions, I want to point out that Buddhists pray for all beings to become Buddha, not Buddhist. As well, any sense of Buddhist identity or self is not the aim of a path that teaches selflessness.” #Buddhism #selflessness #Dharma #peace

President Obama handles none of the kids caring who he is like...like....not like a narcissist.

Weekend vibes.

Home.

Today we took a long drive on back roads to visit friends in Napa Valley. The drive was an ode to gorgeous landscapes. Dear Northern California, deep respect, deep love. 🙏🏻

Friends, this astounding library of public talks by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche…..🙏🏻 It comes as Pema Chodron’s new book lands. The internet is in its own way, a transmission vehicle. Enjoy! #Buddhist #wisdom #Dharma #Buddhadharma #ChogyamTrungpa #Freedom library.chogyamtrungpa.com/the-myth-of-...

I know, I know…but the sun sets in the west and turns our cabin into a shadowbox. It feels just this golden. Sending it to you. 🙏🏻 #minimalist #attachment #peace

"When Christian Missionaries came to Africa, they had a bible and we had land. They said, ‘close your eyes, let us pray.’ When we opened our eyes we had the bible and they had the land." ~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu #Peace #Decolonize

New @tibetnetwork.bsky.social report: China's push to replace #Tibet with Xizang isn't a linguistic correction — it's a neo-colonial erasure campaign. From Paris museums to UN documents, the renaming is slowly spreading. Here's why it matters (and how to push back): tibetnetwork.org/tibet-not-xi...

The more trails I walk, the more childhood memories float up. I grew up with the woods for my backyard and the river at the end of our street. Feeling deep peace out here where I’m lucky to live. Grateful. Humbled. And I miss my Mom. 🙏🏻

Word.

Today our world calls out for new types of bodhisattvas who look for ways to address suffering, dukkha, as it is institutionalized in our social and political lives. — David Loy

I have this friend who sends me memes….

Report from the Field. Somewhere along the way, I let go of the idea that my online life was private. Not because I agree with surveillance but because I stopped expecting the internet to be a protected space. That shift of view has quietly made me more aware, more careful, and a little more awake.☮️

“ The exhausted mind is not thinking. It is circling. Break the loop.” #NamMyohoRengeKyo

Mark Carney and the Liberals are projected to secure a majority government in Canada, crossing the 172-seat threshold after key by-election wins—including a commanding victory in University–Rosedale. 🇨🇦

I feel seen. But kinda hate it. Yes, my first impulse is to ground myself.

This little app is HUGE for those of us training ourselves to breathe more, and with more intention. You can share it to your home screen on iPhone so it’s easy!

World Peace. ☮️ #dogs #cats #interdependence #partnersincrime