On this day in 1967 the Summer of Love began with a Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park. I was just throwing myself into serious Zen practice, somewhere in the neighborhood of this date moving into a house across from the Berkeley Zendo, but still two years from joining with Jiyu Kennett and ordaining. Such hopes for the transformation of the world. As it turns out things didn’t go the way I thought they might. For some addiction. Others early... Read more