February 27, 2017 admin

I live with my wife in old house under a canopy of trees in the center of an old French city on the banks of the Mississippi River.  The streets in my neighborhood are curved which adds a certain effervescence to an evening walk.  Your eyes do not spot objects…

February 2, 2017 admin

Karmic Muscle Group: Awareness, Clarity & Liberation Today’s Exercise: Question Dogma [Preparatory Note: there are several useful definitions of “dogma”, however, it is the custom at TLB to use the one that is broadest.   Therefore, for the purpose of this exercise, the term “dogma” is defined as “prescribed doctrine proclaimed as…

February 2, 2017 admin

I would not have received the Buddhist training that I did over these past thirty years if it had not been for the love and compassion of two Catholic priests.  In 1982, a friend of mine fished me out of a house where I had been living with ten other…

February 2, 2017 admin

The holiday season here is nearing a close.  Millions of American children are already ignoring the many gifts that they received for Christmas.  Young people everywhere are texting each other making plans for New Year’s Eve.  It has been a great year for the consumer establishment — the best retail…

February 2, 2017 admin

We see it everywhere.  There is the striking image of Adriana Lima, famous for modeling for Victoria’s Secret.   Tens of thousands of girls desperate to be loved and admired would do anything to be her.   Including starve themselves to death.   Actually, they have no idea what it is to be…

February 2, 2017 admin

It is a thematic question frequently asked in literature and movies: “what would you do for one more day?”  What would you do for one more day with a dead lover or dead child?  It is evocative of our deepest attachments to impermanent things.  And yet, it is entirely predicated…

February 5, 2012 admin

Tomorrow, my daughter leaves for Scotland to attend the University of St. Andrews.  It seems like she was only home for a very short while having just returned from an internship in the United States Senate last semester.  She is a junior at Smith College.  She spent last summer as…