by Mary | Oct 19, 2013 | quarterly
Science has grown apace during my lifetime and individuals, many of them, think intellectual brilliance is the ultimate of reality. Everyone seems to want to be “in” on whatever everyone else is in on, no matter how stupid or destructive. The “smart” people have...
by Mary | Oct 19, 2013 | quarterly
Psalm 19 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day utterth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth,...
by Mary | Jun 23, 2013 | quarterly
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. –Psalm 19:1 Dear friends, Would those of you who know what this is all about please raise your hands? Here we are, completing another trip around the sun, preparing ourselves in the...
by Mary | Jun 23, 2013 | quarterly
From Father Paul: class on the Tree of Life January 1971 … Now, it’s time we get down to the basis of these things. Learn the details here and start to put them to work in your life. And I don’t mean just on Sundays, but boom-boom-boom-boom right down the...
by Mary | Jun 23, 2013 | quarterly
Isa Upanishad*, dating from about 200 BC , identifies Brahman with the spirit of the Sun: ‘The face of truth remains hidden behind a circle of gold. Unveil it, O God of light, that I who love the truth may see ! O life-giving Sun, offspring of the Lord of Creation,...
by Mary | Jun 23, 2013 | quarterly
“The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths…the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles...
by Mary | Jun 23, 2013 | quarterly
All things come out of seeming nowhere—and return again to the Unknown, even human beings. Yet this source is not a vacuum, but the infinite potential in which all is rooted, symbolized in number by zero. It is No Thing, because “things” are finite, and No Place,...
by Mary | Jun 23, 2013 | quarterly
A series of hand-painted signs dot the side of the winding mountain road that runs between the airport and the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu. Instead of commands to cut speed or check mirrors, they offer the traveler a series of life-affirming mantras. “Life is a...
by Mary | Jun 23, 2013 | quarterly
The Dalai Lama devoted the last public appearance of his Portland visit to an hourlong teaching on compassion. Speaking to about 10,000 people at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, he said the traditional Buddhist value is the key to a happy and peaceful life....
by Mary | Mar 23, 2013 | quarterly
Memories Just a few days before my beloved brother went through transition in an automobile accident, the two of us had an unbelievable flight in a vintage WWII aircraft. He looked at me and said “Life is about Memories”. It had never dawned upon me the scope of his...
