This video originally appeared at: https://www.shambhala.com/David Hinton’s many translations of classical Chinese poetry have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling contemporary poems that convey the texture and density of the originals. He is also the first...
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see. . .” - Theodore Roethke[1] We no longer know much about darkness. We’ve harnessed the light in every conceivable form, unleashing it against the night’s power to unsettle us by obscuring every trace of the visible. Most of us,...
Why were you drawn to explore this theme of death and dying? I have always been drawn to the mystery of death. My first poem, when I was in third grade, was about death. The inner summons, I think, was to the nakedness of soul that emerges at the threshold, a...
I’ve always considered myself to be both a very independent person and a very introverted one.When I was in my early-mid 20s I was especially entrenched in this view of myself, feeling like I needed to prove that I could handle everything on my own and that showing...
For fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, making sourdough, kimchi, and kombucha is about more than eating well at home. It’s a metaphor for creative systemic change, bubbling away from the ground up. Sandor Katz is a fervent devotee of fermentation. “In my home...
When I try to explain to people the essence of my relationship to place, I usually call myself a “serial rooter.” I’ve lived in many places during my life, but I’ve rooted deeply in almost all of them. And each of the places I’ve lived has, I’ve realised with the...
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught philosophy and world religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative...
Polly Young-Eisendrath is a Jungian psychoanalyst, a psychologist, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont. She is also founder and director of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy and the author of 16 books that have been translated...
Dec. 5th ONLINE Get in the Christmas Spirit: Join the White Sisters in a Christmas Sing Along Suitable for all ages, this fun and heart-warming event is the perfect way to get into the holiday spirit as the sisters draw you into their hearts with...
... say we live on, say we’ll forget the masks that kept us from dying from the invisible, but say we won’t ever forget the invisible masks we realized we had been wearing most our lives, disguising ourselves from each other. Say we won’t veil ourselves again, that...
