The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
   —ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, English poet (1809-1892)

Cool Pictures

Sleep - While we're awake, we share one universe, but in sleep we each turn away to a world of our own. (Nov 05)

Don't Know Mind - Intensity baby teaches us don't-know-mind (Nov 05)

Featureless Landscape? - Life at your feet on the High Plains (Sept 05)

Dung and You - What is the dung? What is the beetle? (Aug 05)

Impermanence - Where are you? Every breath is an exchange with the rest of the world. (July 05)

Big Sky - Sky as a metaphor for mind: empty, boundless, and fundamentally pure, even when obscured by clouds (thoughts and emotions). (June 05)

Monks Rock - this rock, in Myanmar, is said to be held up by a precisely placed hair of the Buddha (June 05)

Reading Faces - always interesting to examine strangers' faces in repose (June 05)

Look Again classes are scent-free! A number of students are sensitive to scented products, and suffer greatly if exposed to perfume or scented soap or hair products. Please avoid using any scented products at all on any meditation class day.