This Upasika Life

Walking on Tracks

Sakula — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:33:03 +0000

Posted in Ajahn Chah Ajahn Sucitto Cultivation Mind

Though today has warmed from its cold winter’s snap yesterday’s early walk was draped in frozen fog. The leaves that didn’t crunch underfoot glittered like candy to my eye. My mind began to dance and the heart picked up the [...]

Tic – Toc – Tic – Toc . . .

Sakula — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:36:14 +0000

Posted in Time Video

I posted this video three years ago and now I’m even older and the message still applies . . . and now I’m even older still . . . how am I spending my time?

Giving and Recieving between communities

Sakula — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:12:23 +0000

Posted in Dana/Generosity Holidays

Most every month I meet with the Board of Trustees of the Sellwood Methodist Church, our landlords. Over the years these kind gentlemen have listened to all sorts of ways we at Portland Friends of the Dhamma have been jostling [...]

What’s Moving, What’s Still

Sakula — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:56:11 +0000

Posted in Uncategorized

Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said: “The flag is moving.” The other said: “The wind is moving.” The sixth patriarch happened to be passing by. He told them: “Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving.” [...]

Who’s Not Afraid of Dying?

Sakula — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:08:36 +0000

Posted in death Monastics Travel

Follow the link for a video taken on the road from Leh to Lamayuru, in Ladakh (in the India Himalaya). The new road in the valley floor was being repaired so we went up the high twisty narrow old road. [...]