I'll be teaching the SR Monday night class online next week. Draft title: "Right Letting Go: Renunciation and Wise Attention." Climate and the polycrisis, and we'll think through layers of personal and collective responsibility and wise action.

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Also... Gukesh! Brilliant play, but also crazy luck after Ding's Rf2 blunder. Chess drama! So slow but so satisfying.

#WorldChessChampionship2024 #GoGukesh

Last quarter of dragon year is throwing big. May the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria be the seed for a turn toward peace and well-being for the people of Syria and across the region.

Blessings as you head into a holiday week that I know is difficult for many of us as we increasingly reckon with the colonial reality behind the myth of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving wise speech thread... 1/11

Hi. Arriving here along with so many others following the election. I'll mostly post Buddhist material, in conversation with the larger cultural moment as best I can. Here's a quote I posted right after the 2020 election. Then it was celebratory, today it's maybe more of a long view.