garyhorvitz

This Time

In this time of Covid, economic upheaval, the climate monster bearing down on us, unrest and uncertainty, many are suffering.

Things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster.

Whatever else it might mean, emergence implies the most intimate character of life, a constant unfolding of arising and disappearing,

My lineage is the vast space of Longchenpa, the precision of Jigme Lingpa, the tickster Patrul Rinpoche and heart of

A portal appears. I am bathed in light, warm, soft, welcoming, forgiving, familiar. It fills me with a reminder of

The relationship between the environmental movement and racism is clear. We’ve known this for a long time and it’s become

Colonization happened to us and there is no undoing the past. But colonization is also constantly still happening, through the

These bones are now but drying dates shriveling in the sun. In the morning, they squabble with each other like

Normal consciousness of form, time, body, the world of interaction, is all cracked. That is, there are cracks in these

The tragic and glorious reality brought to us by the pandemic has been a daily encounter with impermanence, the poignant