monksAugust 6, 2006 6:02 pm
Can meditation change the physical structure of the brain? Can our "baseline" happiness and compassion be elevated? Although just a neophyte meditator, I tend towards being a believer. What do you think?
travel 4:52 pm
From Basho’s “Narrow Road to the Interior”
The months and days are wayfarers of a hundred generations, and the years that come and go are also travelers. Those who float all ther lives on a boat or reach their old age leading a horse by the bit make travel out of each day and inhabit travel. Many in the past also died while traveling. In which year it was I do not recall, but I, too, began to be lured by the wind like a fragmentary cloud and have since been unable to resist wanderlust, roaming out to the seashores.