Dharma

Upon my departure from India, the Buddhist monks at the World Buddhist Centre provided me with a prayer shawl to wear on my journey and offered wishes for a "happy splended new year." I share these New Year's blessings with those who seek to follow the path of respect, compassion, truth, and non-violence towards all living things--indeed towards the earth herself.

Resolution Karma:

Leonard Bernstein conducting the Boston Sympony in a performance of Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony at Tanglewood, in 1970. (From The Legend of Lenny

by Alex Ross, New Yorker, December 15, 2008).

"This is the urgency: Live!

Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the

whirlwind."

--Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Second Sermon on the Warpland"