We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, [...]
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Entering the Body
How might we find—and strengthen—those slender threads that link heaven and earth, that relate our two natures, the earthly and the divine? If we wish to deepen into ourselves, transcend the ordinary mind, and come into contact with whispers of the greater intelligence and larger awareness that reside within ourselves, how do we proceed? What [...]
Cultivating the Art of Seeing, by David Ulrich
Article by David Ulrich David Ulrich is the Program Coordinator for Pacific New Media, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals including Aperture, Parabola, MANOA, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over seventy-five one-person and [...]
Satsang on Lifting the Veil
I’ve broken a lot of bad habits over the years: nail biting, excessive caffeine consumption, sugar, junk food, etc. I’m running out of “things” to let go of. Now, my experience is not necessarily a “habit” that I am letting go of, but rather a way of being. This is proving to be very frightening [...]
Satsang on Relationship
Did I disappoint you? Or leave a bad taste in your mouth? You act like you never had love And you want me to go without Well it’s Too late Tonight To drag the past out into the light We’re one, but we’re not the same We get to carry each other carry each other [...]
Creativity & Yoga: New Classes at Pacific New Media
© David Ulrich My earliest memories of finding stillness were not through yoga, but through art. I studied art extensively in high school and in college, and those early experiences with art and creativity likely contributed to my interest in practices like yoga and meditation. During many extensive talks with David Ulrich, a well-regarded photographer, [...]
Satsang on Abhinivesha
To be, or not to be–that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep– No more–and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the [...]
Satsang on Completing the Circle
A few years ago, I conducted research on Buddhism and addiction at The Wat Thamkrabok Monastery in Southern Thailand. Within the monastery is a drug rehabilitation center that uses only Buddhist philosophy, meditation, and herbal remedies to “cure” addiction. The monastery was built in 1949 during the opium trade in Southeast Asia. Since then, the [...]
Satsang on Non-Attachment & Commitment: Dancing with Intimacy
photo credit: Kanani Ann Daley You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye -Margaret Atwood My old home had a vicious cross breeze that often blew open the kitchen cabinets and tossed things from the dining table. One day, the wind blew over a full glass of [...]
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