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Photo Blog

An Occasionally updated photo journal

2019-2022

9/21/2022

 
Right before the pandemic lock down I got a small teaching tour in. Back to NYC for a retreat and then some Yoga Teacher Trainings in Northern AZ
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Then it was all a bit of a whirlwind as we all spent more time at home and more teaching happened from this spot at my computer.
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Memorial Weekend Dharma Fest at the lavender farm

5/27/2018

 
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3 days of classes on the Yoga Sutras as part of Darren Rhodes yoga teacher training

4/30/2018

 
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7 weeks in Taiwan

10/25/2017

 
These faces and bright hearts are what make me want to keep coming back here. 
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Special Thanks to my fearless host and tour director for so much hard work to make this all possible. 
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New and old friends at a beautiful and very soulful nunnery in Yilan where I had a small four day rest from teaching. 
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Night markets, so many smells and sights
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Always lots of laughing and fun with this saint of a man. 
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Two of my favorite people who kindly let me impose myself on them every time Im here. After some great hotpot and rowdy conversation we of course go late night golfing on the roof of a six story mall in down town Taipei. 
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Endless thanks to all of these friends for the inspiration and lively debates and discussions over the past 7 weeks!
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So happy to be back in Kaoshung for a weekend of classes.
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Out to lunch with the ladies!
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Quiet morning at Memorial Hall in Taipei. A rare clear day during this rainy season. 
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Heading south on the East coast. A perfect day, big waves and billowing clouds

10/21/2017

 
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October 15th, 2017

10/15/2017

 

Fall Tour - NYC and Taiwan

10/5/2017

 
Back in Manhattan and very grateful to Ryushin Sensei for a fruitful meeting on the Sofia project and his many insights and general warmth and intelligence. A treasure of a man.
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A lively night as we discuss ways of working with difficult emotions at beautiful Prema Yoga in Brooklyn.
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So happy to be back in beautiful and wild Taiwan
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Lun Shan laying the ground rules for my first class on the three flavors of mindfulness
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2016

10/5/2017

 
OK I didn't quite keep up with this photo blog for this year as we found ourselves with our hands full buying and refurbishing Skull Valley Lavender Farm. A small collection of pictures below and more at sofiacommunity.com
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arcosanti

10/19/2015

 
Two weeks of composing musical scores and performing at Arcosanti, one of my all time favorite places. First with dear friends from Human Nature Dance Theater. (Our 22nd year of working together!) and then a week with the Global Stilt Congress.
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Carpetbag Brigade and the Global Stilt Congress
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Spending my days with NAgarjuna in Northern Arizona

9/15/2015

 
When asked what the best entry point was for someone wanting to fully grasp the profundity of the Buddhas teachings the Dalai Lama answered 'the two truths'. I was excited to read this because it confirmed something that occurred to me after years of studying Buddhist philosophy and years of retreat; in the two truths debate we have one of the most relevant and useful tools in all of Buddhist philosophy for modern people.

One perfect entry point for understanding the two truths is the great sage Nagarjuna's (2nd Century) seminal text the Mulamadhyamakakarika.  Revisiting this difficult and beautiful text I am reminded that every moment spent struggling with it is time well spent.

Without a strong understanding of the nuances of the two truths debate we have seen many teachers and practitioners go astray. Perhaps more than anything else it is the profound subtleties of the two truths debate that keeps our minds sharp and pliable and our hearts gentle and open. 
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And after days in the books and on the cushion sometimes its good to take a day off. Ann and I go visit the local swimming hole near our new home for a picnic and some cliff jumping.
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East Coast

7/14/2015

 
An inspiring week with the parishioners of St. Michael's Episcopal Church and the yogis at Bhava Yoga in Brattleboro, VT.
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Meetings with Rev. Jacqui Lewis and her husband Rev. John Janka on the future of Sofia Monastery. Much thanks to them for their time and insight and for a literally uplifting sunday morning service at Middle Church in NYC.
Two days of teachings and birthday celebrations with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in NYC! An explication of Kamalashila's Bhavankrama as well as the 5th Dalai Lamas White Tara Long Life Sadhana.

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Paying respect to Bhikku Bodhi's home monastery, the impressive Chuang Yen Monastery.
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Sitting by the creek with legendary poet and musician Ed Sanders as he critics some of my writing and we talk about poetry, Robert Kennedy, Manson, psychopathology and John Keats ideas about negative capability. A  baby doe comes to explore with her mother.  
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Greenwich, Ct

5/31/2015

 
Trying to get over jet lag for a talk this Tuesday in Greenwich, CT.
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Goodbye to beautiful Taiwan

5/28/2015

 
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I will miss so many people who have become good friends over the last couple of years.
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The last day of a 6 week course. Everyone worked so hard and we had some good debates!
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Taiwan: the smell of spring everywhere and hard Monsoon rains

5/22/2015

 
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Yoga in Kaohsiung
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Meditation in Tainan
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Taoist Holiday

5/9/2015

 
I love Taiwanese holidays! An entire road lined with firecrackers. Besides hours of classes, this week has been highlighted by a super fun cooking class, and a traditional 7 course meal with friends in a beautiful 200 year old building. 
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