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Seattle… the mist casts an otherworldly sheen over the city.  The landscape takes on an impressionistic tone and I feel as if the world is being water colored.  I walk Greenlake with my laotong who spots a bald eagle sitting atop a towering, flat needled pine.  A small crow is fearlessly or perhaps recklessly trying [...]

Longing to be touched, to feel the warmth of a sleeping body next to me.  Breathing the scent of human skin. The intimacy and comfort of naked bodies entwined. My heart sings to the one who has yet to appear.  I am finding in this great emptiness within me, what it is I truly want.  To be loved.  To [...]

Al l beings seek peace and freedom.
Students have come to me in internal conflict, in a state of disharmony and suffering. They are in opposition with themselves and their experience. They invariably believe that their unrest is a result of their personal circumstances.  They try to manipulate, control and otherwise alter their external experience believing [...]

 
Thoughts create your emotional experience.  Whatever you think produces a physiological as well as an emotional response.  Thought creates form. Whatever you think you become. Thoughts and emotions are not powerful in and of themselves but  become so when you invest them with identification.  You cannot have a single thought or emotion that does not [...]