Walk for Peace is a 120-day, 2,300-mile journey by 19–24 Buddhist monks — with loyal rescue dog, Aloka — walking from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C. to raise awareness of #peace and #compassion.

#Greenland appears to be considered seriously as an addition to the shopping cart – bbc.in/4sIQcfw

US-Venezuela Policy, #FAFO anon.to/ZTkmAF

Happy New Years

from THE INVISIBLE SUN – Attar, translated by Sholeh Wolpe You do what you always do and never worry about the angel of death at your heels. Life dashes faster than you think. don’t be deaf to these words. The cotton you’ve stuffed in your ears is cut from your own shroud. #sufi #poetry

Lion's Roar magazine is running this new text clarifying different branches of Buddhism, by someone with the exact same name as me. tinyurl.com/yc8fzjxm ( Questions? Comments ? Criticism ?? ) #buddhism #vipassana #zen #pureland #vajrayana

Instant classic anthology. 135 contributors from various sectors, aligned on the vector of Awakening. Eclectic as heck. American Book Award. ❤️ Only $15. Buy one, buy a bunch for gifts. More info: garygach.com/books/what-b... Order from the publisher: tinyurl.com/49az3f9k -={ W h a a t ! ? }=-

communitymanagement.de/john-coate-f... from (a) Golden Age of online community / social media

Reading the new issue of @markaz-review.bsky.social themarkaz.org/why-national... Why #Nationality ?

When Howl was published, I was 8. ( Where were you ? ) Did I imagine I'd be invited by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to take part in a celebration of its 70th anniversary – livestreamed to registrants ? ¿ { free nirvana } ? citylights.com/events/howl-... #poetry

When Howl was published, I was 8. ( Where were you ? ) Did I imagine I'd be invited by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to take part in a celebration of its 70th anniversary – livestreamed to registrants ? ¿ { free nirvana } ? citylights.com/events/howl-... #poetry

Five-Spirited Garden هرگز نمیرد آن که دلش زنده شد به عشق ثبت است بر جریدهٔ عالم دوام ما www.parsagon.com/five-spirite... #Hafez #Hafiz #poetry #translation #world #wine #lovei #wisdom #garden #حافظ

Ragas Live Festival ragaslive.com#schedule2025 #desi #raga

Today is #HafezDay garygach.com/.../hafizs-l... ( it's also #NationalFarmersDay too )

www.latitude38.com/lectronic/ep... #writers #YA #Nautical

4 Am feeling like it's time for a media fast for me for a while. Fortunately, I have few followers and those who'll miss my scribblings will know I'll come back on the other side. Be kind.

3 And then recent posts by Sahar Delijani courtesy of KKavita Krishnan resonating with what I'm hearing my dear, exhausted Iranian American friends all saying. www.facebook.com/kavita.krish...

2 Then, turning towards Iran, this report from Tehran in The Markaz Review from an anonymous eyewitness. He's calling it a "Twelve-Day War." Let's hope right now is not a lull & the cease-fire actually sticks. ( Why not!? ) themarkaz.org/missiles-and...

Not turning away from the suffering depicted in 2 dozen different posts from Gaza City this morning – [ Enough already! Please, STOP!! ]

Friends, If unable to attend, perhaps you might wish to donate. Pass it along. partiful.com/e/MLQ7icTZ3e... Sahba Aminikia : www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsXf... Flying Carpet Festival : www.flyingcarpetfestival.org #Iran #healing

Happy #Juneteenth! Sharing some ways to support Black people today and everyday ✊🏾❤️

Please post word from anybody's friends / relatives in Iran.

Violence boomerangs. – LaoZi, 4th century BC.

Ari Honarvar on how #art keeps us tethered to #freedom on " A Soulful Revolution Podcast" hosted by Rev Lauren Grubaugh Thomas podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... #spirituality

I need stationery as big as the sky to say Thank You. Alice Quinn selected 4 poems by Ko Un SSN – translated by Prof Young-moo Kim, An Sonjae, & me – for @newyorker.com. 18 years later, Kevin Young includes them in "100 Years of Poetry in 'The New Yorker" from @aaknopf.bsky.social. #poetry

I'll Still Try To Love You : The Power of Nonviolence dailyquaker.com/2025/03/but-... #nonviolence #satyagraha #Quaker

What could possibly go wrong

Interview: Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of Nimatullahi Order I -مصاحبه دکتر جواد نوربخش، پیر سلسله نعمت‌اللهی www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfhW... #Sufi #Sufism

New website www.nimatullahi.org #Sufi #Sufism

NIH focus on the brain – but not beyond – has overshadowed our appreciation of the gut as a second brain ( cf Candace Pert ), & the heart ... wakeup-world.com/2012/02/29/h...

Is it naive to hope all sides to warfare reconsider ? Probably. Is that any reason not to ?

For this year's memorial day weekend, I've recorded Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen. If you do listen, I'd like hear how it makes you feel. drive.google.com/file/d/1ne85...

"Writing the Body" w @margosteines.bsky.social is back! What skills, craft tools, literary instincts, and embodied practices can writers use to support our body work? Learn allt his and more w @christinajcooke.bsky.social, @porochista.bsky.social, Sarah Manguso, & Krys Malcom Belc: buff.ly/JOxfnwQ

A Sufi Commentary on the Tao Te Ching by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Translators: Mohammad H. Faghfoory, Toshihiko Izutsu fonsvitae.com/product/a-su... #Sufism #Daoism #Interfaith

The Future of Publishing & Literature in Translation @City of Asylum vimeo.com/event/498936... #translation #literarytranslation

RIP Alice Notley November 8 1945 – May 19 2025 lareviewofbooks.org/article/betw... via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by Shoshana Olidort #motherhood #epic #poetry #poetrylovers #AfterLife

It's also possible to create a full spectrum with 2 colors, but – that's another story. #color #light #farbenlehr

The great poet Alice Notley has died. Her 1992 book ‘The Descent of Alette’ is a journey into the underworld, into what is under our world, into thinking and rethinking and memory, and back out into the light.

wakeup-world.com/2012/02/29/h... #heart #brain #consciousness

O MOTHER GAIA, documentary about poet ecologist Buddhist Gary Snyder, available for free until May 11 vimeo.com/1080606289/9... #poetry #buddhism #ecology

How anti-caste reformer BR Ambedkar left his legacy on modern Buddhism by Richa Karmarkar @rns.org tinyurl.com/ytsrddaz #Buddhism #socialjustice #india #caste #Hindu @ambedkar.bsky.social

#Alcatraz has already been spoken for. www.iitc.org/save-the-dat...

World Press Freedom Day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_P...

What Is Haiku ? What Is Zen ? archive.org/details/Gary... #haiku #zen

May is Read the World Month cup.columbia.edu/read-the-wor...

WHAT WORK IS www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52173/...