santidevi

As human beings we naturally try to eliminate and avoid those elements of our lives that create uncertainty, anxiety, stress and discomfort. These are the conditions that typically precede the evolution of consciousness and awakening. They provide the fertile soil out of which new life emerges. The wise know that it is nonresistance [...]

I lie in bed.  I listen to the sound of waves crashing melodically from my industrial metal night stand. They are produced from a machine designed to bring the natural world into a room without windows. The primordial Buddha sits motionless.  His beloved consort gazes up at him in ecstatic bliss. Entwined they are but [...]

“ May you know that your life is a gift to the world.”
The quote was crafted in pink chalk on the schoolhouse chalkboard that covers one wall in my bathroom.  One of my students had left it floating in the inky blackness.  I stood and read each word slowly, carefully,  just as it had been [...]