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17 Dec Donald Richie on Reading Noh Drama

Posted at 06:47h in art, japan, literature 0 Comments

Each note, each word must be savored, weighed, calculated, and then put again into context; the context and never the word alone creating the image...

10 Jul Review: Auspicious Good Fortune by Sumangali Morhall

Posted at 18:27h in books, inspiring, life, literature, meditation, review, sri chinmoy, writing 1 Comment

Sumangali Morhall presents us with a conclusion that echoes the wisdom of ancient sages quoted within her very pages: to find a spiritual master and to follow the life of inner truth is the most auspicious path of all. Auspicious Good Fortune is...

Posted at 30 Jul, 17:20h in inspiring, literature, poetry, walt whitman 2 Comments

— Walt Whitman: Make no puns

Donald Richie, The Japan Journals: 1947–2004

17 May Donald Richie’s The Japan Journals: 1947–2004

Posted at 16:43h in books, japan, literature 5 Comments

Article first published as Book Review: The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 by Donald Richie on Blogcritics. This is what every memoir should be. Unhindered by any attempt to be self-serving, Donald Richie’s The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 is about the most unflinchingly honest opening of the...

12 Oct Long White Cloud by Alan Spence

Posted at 21:09h in japan, life, literature, meditation, sri chinmoy 1 Comment

My stories often have their origin in something that actually happened - an incident, a memory, something heard. (In this case it was the leap out of a plane at 12000 feet - one of the scariest things I've ever done). It's...

26 Jul Inspiring letters and no few words

Posted at 13:38h in childhood, inspiring, literature, meditation, sri chinmoy, writing 3 Comments

Strangely and very much disconcertingly absent from pen and desk, writing paper blank now curling at the edges these past few months, I've finished and submitted a story nay epic 4000 word behemoth to the soon to be published Episode 17 of...

23 Mar Inspiration-Letters: Destiny Edition

Posted at 23:39h in inspiring, life, literature, meditation, sri chinmoy, writing 6 Comments

Thrift stores, cheap chocolates and masterpieces by Van Gogh and Cezanne—so begins the 16th edition of Inspiration-Letters, magazine style forum for inspired writers of the Sri Chinmoy Centre. A fitting beginning it is too, for all the authors are koan-carrying members of...