“I have tried to learn in my writing a monastic lesson I could probably not have learned otherwise: to let go of my idea of myself, to take myself with more than one grain of salt,” writes Thomas Merton. He wrote elsewhere: ” seek no face, I treasure no experience, no memory. Anything I write [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Write Mindfulness
Posted in Tracy Cochran on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Go Down Moses
Posted in Tracy Cochran on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When Harriet Tubman was 13, her skull was fractured by a 2-pound lead weight in a dispute between an overseer and another slave. After this, she began having visions and conversations with God. She told people she was always talking to the Lord. In 833, a year or two before her injury, she also witnessed [...]
Making the Sign of the Cross
Posted in Tracy Cochran on September 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Some of us have been questioning what it means to be mechanical or not mechanical. Months ago, in the course of reporting a story for a Buddhist magazine, I took a trip up to Leverett, Massachusetts, to visit a glorious Peace Pagoda built by the monks and nuns of a little known sect of Japanese [...]
