Category: meditation

One of the chief characteristics of this life: Everything is temporary. Everyone’s life is temporary. Our online women’s sangha lost our leader, teacher, and dearest friend, Jean Smith, a couple of weeks ago. After a brief and painful hospital visit for gallbladder trouble, she was suddenly home with hospice, then transitioning. She was surrounded by… Continue reading Temporary

This is my favorite book about Buddhism and meditiation. It defines the terms in an understandable way. It’s written by an American man from Long Island, New York, a contemporary, who lost friends when he was in college during the political turmoil of the 1960s and 70s. That redirected his nascent personal ambitions and set… Continue reading Sangha

I started meditating when I was waiting for the results of an MRI of my brain. I was loosing sight in my right eye, and my ophthamologist, Dr. Podell, directed me to a neurologist, who arranged the MRI. Podell suspected MS. His mother had had it. I was forty-four and was at the end of… Continue reading Homebody Buddha