As our country embarks on a day of No-Kings protests, two Tibetan monks in Fayetteville, Arkansas, are constructing the healing mandala of Medicine Buddha. Blessings on them and on us all.

That's it. That's all. The whole Friday package.

My Weekly Wednesday post is up on Medium, in which my friends and I—a bona fide committee—prepare a letter for our next American president.

Link here: sjburris.medium.com/a-letter-to-...

#WritingCommunity #Booksky

From the official White House X account. This shouldn't be normalized, excused, or accepted in any way. But it is a clear indication of where we are under the current administration: the guardrails are gone.

If we look around, we can find it. #Buddhism

Easter greetings from POTUS, a deeply damaged man.

Let’s be clear & #ICYMI

If you had one Buddhist text to take with you to the desert island that we dream of, which would it be?

For me, it's an easy answer: THE WAY OF THE BODHISATTVA. Every time through it, I find new depths, new practices, new and timely advice. It's ageless.

#BuddhistSky #Buddhism #BuddhaSky

Currently reading . . . excellent introduction by David Bromwich too. Sobering sentences by Arendt. #LiteratureSky

Seems about right for this Clown Car of an administration.

Musk reposted this yesterday. Good to know where Musk stands on the matter of genocide.

Re-reading George Orwell's 1984. (Who isn't, right?) And feeling triggered by the three slogans of the Party. #amwriting #Trump #resist

"A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom—he fears a drunken poet who cracks a joke that may take hold." E.B. White, January 1939 | Here's to drunken poets!

A great decade for sure. For me, it was the Sixties & early Seventies, and the music from that period, and the lessons it taught us, seem almost a dream now. Particularly as I remember #JohnLennon, a victim of gun violence on this day (12/8) in 1980.

My beloved teacher & friend, Geshe Thupten Dorjee, at the Gandhi Museum in Delhi. No commentary needed for this one.