Kathmandu — I was sitting in my four dollar a day bedroom at a guesthouse run by a Sherpa family in Nepal, when I realized one thing: Living is an act of letting go. I used to think life was a grand process of ...
Houston — During my last year of college, I took a creative fiction writing course on a whim. Even though I was an English major, I had never created stories since I was a child. I just enjoyed reading them thr...
Obama-shi — “SESSHIN ARIMASSS!” Whack! A monk hits me with a wooden stick, hard. I’m wondering why I didn’t bring those padded shoulder jackets from the 80s. Usually, only those that doze off in meditation gets...
culinary creativity in the monastic kitchen
just do it
Sesshin
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Even they eat potato chips in Mea She'arim
A Momentary Superpower
Shigin trials
The Value of a Gap Year
The art of not knowing
Learning from writing: Robert Boswell's half known world
living is letting go