the dharma blog

“One day in October 1965, poets Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg and Philip Whalen performed a ritual walk around Mount Tamalpais, following the Buddhist meditation practice of walking clockwise around a venerated object, pausing for worshipful chanting.”

“…somehow on a mountain top, the wind is more elemental and essential, like the breath of God blowing life into the rocks and ice and whispering how small you are and how grand nature is.”

“…a sizable part of the academic community nevertheless believes that nature cannot be known as she is, and that science is just one more stab at what lays beneath the veil, no more or less “true” than any other social construction of supposed reality.”