Friends, I would like you to meet Maitreya the bodhisattva. In Buddhist mythology, Maitreya is supposed to be the Future Buddha. Buddha 2.0, if you will. The representation you see above was created in the 1st century CE from the region of Gandhara, in present-day...
I think humor should be an integral part of one’s spiritual practice. The part to enlightenment is fraught with difficulty, it is important to be able to laugh all the way on that journey. Humor is also a great vehicle for transmitting both the speakable and...
The Mountain View Mobile Library comes to Google every week. It is a large converted bus that parks in our carpark, but they also set up a table just outside the bus to handle the extra human traffic. One lady tried to pay a library fine at the table and the library...
My goal in life is to create the conditions for world peace in my lifetime, and to do so by making the benefits of meditation accessible to humanity. I tell that to a lot of people. I am amazed how few people actually ask me what I think of my chances of success. ...
My [email protected] address, an email address I’ve been using since 1995, no longer works. This is because my long-time web host, Datarealm, decided to pull the plug on the serve.com domain. My new email address is [email protected]. Some of my friends have...
