Walking and Praying

After three years. No words can touch it. Stepping forward to return home.

Delhi is a place of transition and passage for me as I start this pilgrimage. Tomorrow before sunrise the next leg of the journey to Ladakh, and to begin this pilgrimage, begins. Yet today it was clear the pilgrimage has already begun. Blessings poured in from many directions. Friends and loved ones reached out. Support…

As a bee seeks nectarfrom all kinds of flowers,seek teachings everywhere. Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze,seek seclusion to digest all you have gathered. Like a lion, live completely free of all fear. And, finally, like a Wild one, beyond all limits,go wherever you please. —Chogyal Namkhai Norbu I woke this…

In the Zen tradition, we have the opportunity to receive something called lay ordination, or Jukai. Before Jukai, we sew a robe, a kind of bib, called a rakusu. It takes a long time to sew it. We make tiny stitches and with each stitch we take refuge in Buddha. The lay of the stitches…

pilgrimage, a journey undertaken for a religious motive. Although some pilgrims have wandered continuously with no fixed destination, pilgrims more commonly seek a specific place that has been sanctified by association with a divinity or other holy personage. —Encyclopedia Brittanica On August 2nd, I’m leaving San Francisco on the first leg of a four-month pilgrimage.…