This post concerns one of three encounters I have had with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I have never before shared some of these pictures publicly, and the full story
The exact moment of my ordination, September 7, 1992, at the Temple of the Sixth Patriarch, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. In this gesture, the Teacher brushes some water on
Q: Is there something you realize now, as a teacher, that you wish you realized earlier? Reply: Yes. Sometimes your students’ wishes are purer than your own.
I returned to our home temple, Hwa Gye Sah, in the mountains of Seoul after completing a second 100-day solo retreat in the Jiri Sahn Mountains, in the winter of
In some respects, you need to be a big dog to get people to find the water that is already within:
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: One of my closest Dharma brothers, the Lithuanian monk, Bo Haeng Sunim, died suddenly on April 22 in his sleep at Hwa Gye Sah temple in Seoul, South
I told John today, perhaps for the first time, that as we grew up together over these last five decades (but really in the first two decades), I always envied
