I have come to understand bipolarism as a social pathology where the two poles of the mind have lost their balance. When the balance of the poles is lost, Mania breaks out from its objective restraints, and the subjective, having cut the leash of proof and evidence, bursts out of…

If not for Doug Coleburn I would not have stayed in Blackstone, for it was his giving me a space to write my stories that allowed me to make Blackstone my home. in 1986. Thanks to Doug having faith in me, and hiring me without credentials, everybody began to know…

When my Buddha pond was created and matured 20 years ago, a giant bullfrog came and sat in Buddha’ cup, letting me walk up and take…

The end of the cosmology of the sky It wasn’t until my mother died that I saw through and through that, my life had been a moon orbiting the Mother. I was her dying and resurrected son. …

I feel the breeze

DEATH IS A WONDER TO BEHOLD Belief has closed our world to wonder…now we have to create wonder in movies, but when the movie, like Avatar, is over, belief closes back in like cloud cover. Wonder is “This cannot be real..this cannot be happening.” When death is near, wonder is…

THE CAT ONLY SEES THE FINGER Our great problem with the way we know reality in the Material world is that things are real and the subjective mind or I AM is dismissed as “your opinion.” Science can measure the brain but consciousness, because it cannot be measured, is a…

HOW I CAME TO LOVE MY LAZY EYE After a lifetime of trying to break out of the womb of dualism (I — it) I landed, exhausted and surrendered in Zen Awakening (which is any awakening but with a Zen label for want of words) where I can be amphibious…

THE WAY OF THE CAT IS ZEN When a cat leaps onto a shelf above his vision, he can land without breaking any glass….until he intentionally pushes it off the shelf. I remember being a cat several times. I was at my little Buddha pond, and my foot was caught…