Part 1: Conclusion of Gyo and Consequences The recent gyo, which concluded on August 13th, was the first after a hiatus of three years due to the COVID pandemic. It was unlike any we have hosted before primarily due to many of the leadership and participants...
Part 1 – Hozro: To be in harmony with one’s environment. In recent years we have been living with the consequence of rapid climate change around the world. The last few months have been especially noteworthy in the northeast U.S. and Canada. Up until recently...
It’s summertime. Those of us living in the Northeast of North America are treated to the changing of the seasons. Each season has its advantages and disadvantages. Not only the temperature differentials but the smells of the air, the quality of the wind on one’s skin,...
We perceive human immigration primarily as a political issue today. It has been a social phenomenon as long as there have been people. Immigration has been a feature of hominid life from long before Homo sapien sapiens. Homo erectus immigrated out of Africa to Eurasia...
In discussing behavior in the hondo during a dharma talk recently I mentioned that the genkan (entranceway between the outside to the inner, the sanctuary, is a liminal space. A space between the sacred and the mundane or profane. Stepping across the sill at the door...
‘Symbols; institutional, religious, commercial, are all around us. We respond to them based upon our experiences with the entity that the symbol represents, as well as the visual message conveyed by the graphics and an understood meaning. When an image which has a...
