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Sunbeams

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Dogen

Editor’s Note

Dealing With Pain

A motorcycle crash, hair loss, schizophrenia

Editor’s Note

Calling

Sunbeams

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Teilhard de Chardin

The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues

(Part I)

They draw me into an arch so that they can run an eighteen-inch horse-needle in between the plates of my spine for an hour or so to get a copious sample of the cerebrospinal fluid. So the doctors can tell my family. What they know already. That I am very sick. That I might die.

Good Marriages

A miracle, a third person in the relationship: Jesus, a fourth divorce

Still Moving

An Interview With Tai-Chi Teacher Jay Dunbar

Tai-Chi takes extraordinary discipline and perseverance to gain any degree of mastery, and yet, it’s ideally suited to someone who’s interested in a complete series of exercises to do in a short period of time every day. It’s a Taoist paradox.

Night Poem