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Thresholds
We come through one gasping for air and leave by another gasping for air. Most...
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I Have Not Forgotten
any of you. Not the long friendship we somehow broke into pieces so sharp we...
September 20, 2010
For His Students (for Steve Severin)
I have come to tell you that your teacher is gone. Much too soon. He...
September 13, 2010
Breaking Bread
The giver is used up in the giving as rain evaporates in what it helps...
September 06, 2010
What Then?
What if you slept? And what if, In your sleep You dreamed? And what if,...
August 2010
August 30, 2010
The way we practice
The earth spins on its axis drifting through the dark, seeming to go nowhere as...
August 23, 2010
What I Really Want to Say
If what I have can help, you can have it. Why? We are carriers not...
August 16, 2010
Why am I the only one crying?
I met a woman who had loved Mozart her whole life. We were at a...
August 09, 2010
2 poems by Robert McDowell
Robert read two of his poems during Saturday's class: 400 Apples The Sheep That Feeds...
August 09, 2010
To Be and Belong
Let go your want for greatness and feel the tool that’s in your hand. Let...
August 02, 2010
Not According to Plan
When I drop my glasses in the airport and they are crushed in the walkway...
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July 26, 2010
Tasks
There’s the limb that came down in the last storm. And the peach tree we...
July 19, 2010
Grace Notes
In learning to play piano at the age of forty-one, I worked my fingers far...
July 12, 2010
The Slowing of the Land
There is a day when the road neither comes or goes, and the way is...
July 11, 2010
Get a taste of Robert’s class
Your Heroic Journey started yesterday and it was an inspiring and thought-provoking class. Here's a...
July 05, 2010
Lifting the Net
I’m a bird who’s found his way to the forest. --Po Chü-I Sitting alone in...
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June 28, 2010
Water Doesn’t Lie
A thousand years ago, a colorful bird flew out of an ancient tree in Persia,...
June 21, 2010
Pilot Light
Sorry. As soon as I talk about it, it moves out of view. Let me...
June 14, 2010
Losing Yourself
We’re having lunch at the harbor, salads and tea, and Bob starts talking about losing...
June 13, 2010
Oprah interviews Mark Nepo—6/28 and 7/4—don’t miss it!
Huge news! Mark recently sat down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey at Harpo Studios...
June 07, 2010
A Steadfast Teacher
—If we want to be held, we have to behold. I admit that well into...
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May 31, 2010
The One True World
Though it’s all one world, when we close our eyes to the outer life, we...
May 24, 2010
Centering Clay
Dig something you think might last from the earth and wedge the air from it....
May 17, 2010
In Full Praise
When asked about the difference between a slow-witted boy and a sage, a rabbi said,...
May 10, 2010
Chant
What we want and what we’re given often serve two different Gods. How we respond...
May 03, 2010
Transformation
It could be the letter never answered, the one in which you declared your love...
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April 26, 2010
Singing the Same Question
For a poet whose fidelity has been to the timeless voice of that underground stream...
April 19, 2010
The Waterbird Way
In speaking about the non-dependence of the mind, Dōgen says, “Coming, going, the waterbirds don’t...
April 12, 2010
Love Is As Love Does
This is the world of Grandma Minnie, the Brooklyn of my youth so full of...
April 05, 2010
To See and Hear
I couldn’t keep the damn glasses clean. Kept wiping them and curs- ing them. And...
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