Healing Is Happening Even When You Can’t See It

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” ~Marie Curie I almost didn’t go to my cousin’s wedding. Not because I didn’t want to celebrate her. I did. But the thought of walking into a room full of people who knew the version of...

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How I Learned to Sit With Discomfort

I sat atop a long wooden dock overlooking the Lagoon of Seven Colors in Bacalar, Mexico. I wanted to meditate, but felt hesitant, aware of the other visitors around me. They were splashing and diving, rocking their children and lovers in the water.  As a compromise, I...

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His Dharma Heir

A sharp clack echoed through the garden, and she looked up. The timekeeper, a novice who had just taken her vows, stood on the walkway, holding her wooden mallet, getting ready to strike the wooden plaque again to signal time for zazen and evening service. Aikon could...

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Sometimes Love Needs to Move

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” ~Wendell Berry I was watching television one night when something on the screen made me set everything aside...

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