About Mind

I don’t need to understand

April 3, 2011

Christopher sits in front of me. He is angry, angry at how I’ve been, at how I talked, at how I behaved. He talks and talks and talks. An endless litany of words that push me, poke me, assault me. My mouth pressed together into a thin, angry line, my body rigid. I stare at [...]

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The Manifesto for World Change

February 20, 2011

Our idea of what reality is determines how we relate with it: Nature is not a sentient being, a partner, but a thing – we use it and discard it as we would any tool. Once we die we cease to exist, we lose everything, we are gone for ever – so we cling desperately [...]

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Fighting for freedom, defending the truth, exposing injustice!

February 14, 2011

A zen teacher had an affair with his student. It was a long time thing, lasting for some years. During this affair he also had other mini-affairs with other students, multiple students, who knows how many students. Besides having affairs, he was teaching, developing new ways of practice, new techniques that some found difficult to [...]

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Playing house

February 5, 2011

When did you begin to feel the need to settle down in one place? Had the urge to move on, to go somewhere else, ever went away entirely? Because I am still feeling it, and with every decision to move I wonder how many of the rational arguments are there only to cover up the [...]

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The vow of a storyteller.

December 21, 2010

I have taken a vow, for myself and for the world. The other day I watched a movie, a movie telling a story that dragged me back and forth through human trauma, through pain, suffering, sickness, delusion. A story that rubbed it in my face, shoved it down my throat and left me to die. [...]

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What is organizing your life?

December 10, 2010

We had a fight yesterday … and then I had a fight. Christopher said something and it sent my head spinning, my hands shaking and my blood racing, and I wanted to run and never come back. We had an arrangement, Chris and I, for some time now. As our finances improved we’ve decided that [...]

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