After the retreat and various adventures on the West Coast, I sold the Airstream Argosy and flew to the Big Island with Kunzang Llamo. These photos start with Hilo and end with Christmas Day at Punulu’u in Ka’u. I have a lot of stories about Punulu’u. Ask me sometime.
After Bhandara, my friend returned to Montreal and I found myself at loose ends. A plan was conceived to take a road trip in my 1976 Airstream Argosy 28 to California. But our first stop was the Tribal Vision festival, where we met Avocado. Our departure photo shows Avocado, myself, Tasha, Kunzang, and Roya ready […]
Circumstances arose which required me to get to Colorado Springs pronto, to pick up a friend who’d decided to visit from Montreal. Once I’d picked her up we headed back to Taos for Maharaj-ji’s Mahasamadhi Bhandara. The last photo is of me with friends Kunzang Llamo and Hanuman Das at Bhandara.
I’m a Tibetan Buddhist and my root guru is Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, who I met in the ’90s. Twice he invited me to come live at his retreat center in California. Instead I moved to Austin, got married, and raised a daughter. While at Mount Shasta I suddenly got the urge to finally go visit […]
In mid-August I left Taos on a long loop, stopping in Crestone, Twin Falls, Yakima, Seattle, and Portland before arriving at Mount Shasta. Here are a (very) few photos from that trip.
I spent the summer of 2015 in Taos, doing seva at the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram. Here are a few photos I took during this period.
I’ve come not to take but to be taken, spirit shaken, dragged along, stolen away, heart and soul. Movement is a spring of happiness; How the world blossoms around you but the petals spiral in the wind of your waken. Disappear quickly and show yourself slowly; Love prays in the heavens, the monkey dances. I’m […]
I find myself perfectly perched at the edge of an abyss stepping out into a formless mist of morning fog, I find myself in love with Portland, though she leaves me in a veritable quandary wondering which of her many bridges leads to her heart. I seem to have two hearts, one from the future, […]
This chapter describes one basic model of associative memory, called the sparse distributed memory, and relates it to other models and circuits: to ordinary computer memory, to correlation-matrix memories, to feed-forward artificial neural nets, to neural circuits in the brain, and to associative-memory models of the cerebellum. Presenting the various designs within one framework will […]
Hitting the Essence in Three Words “The Special Teaching of the Wise and Glorious King” The Root Text Herein is contained The Special Teaching of the Wise and Glorious King, together with its commentary. Homage to the master! The view is Longchen Rabjam: infinite, vast expanse. Meditation is Khyentse Özer: rays of wisdom and love. Action […]