Sublime

“As the bleeding stops, the fire goes within,” Lakota elder Paula Gunn Allen says, noting also that in her tradition medicine women do not practice until they have reached their menopausal years.

After Rick finished A Society of Wolves, he traveled to western Colorado and spent two days in the land that had been home to one of the last wolves known to have lived in the state. Gazing out over the juniper and sage, he was moved to perform a ceremony of sorts in memory of the wolf, who was known as Rags the Digger. He played a song written by

Gorillas in the Mist.

transitional beings—

need, and that is the watchman named mindfulness—the guard who is always on the lookout for when we get carried away by mindlessness.”

impermanence, freedom, and deep kindness in our bones.

homily,

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi,