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My Journey of Conscience

perceiving the cries of the world

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December 2016

December 15, 2016

News Getting You Down? Don’t Check Out! Just Witnessing Helps

An awful lot of my friends have been complaining lately about how overwhelming and depressing...

October 2016

October 06, 2016

The World Is Burning and Yet I Garden: Reflections after a Session on Climate Change at the Soto Zen Buddhist Association Conference

I feel that it is very important to say something right now, but it is...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

It’s OK When Things Suck

Buddhist practice doesn’t get you out of experiencing, and feeling the pain of, old age,...

July 07, 2016

What in the Hell Is Happening in Our Country?

As I sit down at my computer for a day of work, I take a...

July 01, 2016

10 Ways to Energize Your Meditation

Most forms of meditation, by definition, are pretty boring. If a meditation technique was entertaining...

October 2015

October 02, 2015

Not Just Guns and Madmen: Our Whole Society Is Insane

Just about every blogger will have something to say in the wake of the Umpqua...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

We’ve Got to Passionately Love Life Itself

I've heard folks speak in placid tones about suffering and destruction due to climate change,...

January 06, 2015

I’m Afraid You’ll Stop Reading this Blog If I Talk about This

On New Year's Eve, 2014, I found out that we have two years - until 2017...

December 2014

December 27, 2014

Cognitive Dissonance: Being Culpable for Life’s Destruction

From a very early age I sensed there was something wrong. I remember being around...

December 19, 2014

The Problem Is, Most People Hate Themselves

Brittany is a new friend of mine who lives outdoors with her big black dog,...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

Bringing Racism and Violence into the Meditation Hall

At my Zen center last night I took the risk of departing from our regularly-scheduled...

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