What is your ground? What is your horizon? Your ground is that place outside yourself and that space inside yourself to where you return to ground yourself, to calm yourself, to collect yourself. Once we ground ourselves, it is easier for us to find our horizon – that place we aim to for, the head …
Preparing for the Ministerial Fellowship Committee: not for the faint-hearted. Besides the whole get a degree thing, and take on additional educational debt, there was the four-page Required Reading List. At five months out, a member of my study group did the math and estimated that we had to read 450+ pages per week to …
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At the meditation center – the Mothership I like to call it – Noble Silence is observed, even if one goes on Self Retreat, which is what I just did for three days: time on my own at the center when there is no specific teacher or course being offered, very little structure imposed from …
This sermon was delivered on February 22, 2015 at First Parish Church of Groton, MA. audio version here Somewhere in Asia – Japan or Malaysia or some other country – there is a picture on a Buddhist monk’s smart phone. It is of the dining hall at Changmyay Meditation Center just outside of Yangon, Myanmar, …
During my upcoming trip to Burma, I will be leading daily meditation sessions for my study group. Most of these fellow travelers have only a minimal familiarity with meditation. We will be spending three days in a Meditation Centre, so our meditation sessions ahead of time are meant to help all of us get ready …
“A chapel is where you can hear something beating below your heart.” Pico Iyer from “Where Silence is Sacred” Bingen am Rhein is part of UNESCO’s world heritage designation for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley that is considered having “outstanding universal value.” Bingen was made famous by the Christian mystic, Hildegard of Bingen. Known and …
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Not all that long ago, I flew to the West Coast to visit my mother. Originally, the tickets I had bought were superb: one layover for less than an hour. Just enough time so I didn’t have to worry about missing the connecting flight, but not so much time that I would be strung out. …
This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace: Let them be able and upright, Straightforward and gentle in speech. Humble and not conceited, Contented and easily satisfied. Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways. Peaceful and calm, and wise and skillful, Not …