Instructions for the Journey ( Read more... )

"To thy True Self be true. And it must follow as the night the day thou canst be fakse to any creature.P

-- Polonius in Al Anon

by Ala al-Dawla Simnani ( Read more... )

The name that appears on my original birth certificate beside the word "Father" belongs to a somewhat marginal member of  his community who cared a lot about my mother and was willing to  call himself my father to spare her further embarrassment.  The boy whose DNA i carry would become an accepted member of his community without a taint of scandal ( Read more... )

HERE BEGINNETH THE EIGHTH CHAPTER ( Read more... )

If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding ( Read more... )

IIf, by Rudyard Kipling ( Read more... )

One shrine to the next, the hermit can't stop for breath.
Soul, get this! You should have looked in the mirror.
Going on a pilgrimage is like falling in love
with the greenness of faraway grass.

-- from I Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded, Translated by Ranjit Hoskote
Poetry Chaikhana | Lalla - One shrine to the next, the hermit can't stop for breath

Reading ( Read more... )

"Bring to rest the thoughts of the ceaselessly seeking mind, and you'll not differ from the Patriarch-Buddha. Do you want to know the Buddha? He is none other than you who stand before me listening to my discourse. Since you students lack faith in yourselves, you run around seeking something outside. Even if through seeking you find something, that ( Read more... )