Dekyong Blog
The Dekyong Blog features posts from BCSS dekyongs, sharing reflections, updates, and perspectives on caring for and supporting our sangha.
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Lest We Forget Our “Luck”
Decades ago, I read Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield (1849). Barbara Kingsolver intentionally shadowed this classic and created Demon Copperhead (2022), which I read this year. The more pages I turned the more I wanted to be done with it. Not because it was poorly written, on the contrary, Kingsolver is an incredible wordsmith, so much so you read each sentence like a sculpted gift. I highly recommend this read, btw. It is just painful because it’s real—purposefully so. She wrote…
a birthday fit for a king
My youngest and I have been listening to and exploring the powerful words of Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday. Stevie wrote the song in his campaign to establish the national holiday we will be celebrating tomorrow.
I know I’m not the only one with deep feels this year, this climate is…
Your Life Is Your Practice
As a dharma practitioner with a career as well as commitments to care for others, I felt for years that there was seldom time to do solitary retreat. This was something that was continuously on my short list of the most important things to do. Frustrated, I became determined to find a way. Then, when I lived at Gampo Abbey, a Shambhala Buddhist monastery in…
Sacred Attachment
A little Valentine post ♥️
Attachment was always sticky for me. Well aware that the root of the whole teaching is grasping as the cause of all our suffering. Time and time again, the teachings bring us back to this undeniable truth. One of my dear teachers, Tana Rinpoche, reminded me that, “Detachment doesn’t mean that…
Training Wheels
It's been so unseasonably nice out everyone's doing things that just don't belong in February. The woman who cuts my hair is teaching her kid to ride a bike. The parking lots are clear, the weather is warm, you can't go sledding. It's a no-brainer.
But she's feeling guilty and stuck as a single mom. Last year she got him a bike. And training wheels. She said she looks at the…
Transformation of Bad Circumstances
All the things taking place around our world, all the irritations and all the problems, are crucial. Without others we cannot attain enlightenment - in fact, we cannot even tread on the path. If there is no noise outside during our sitting meditation, we cannot develop mindfulness. If we do not have…
Like The Sky
“The true condition of mind, is like the sky, like space, without centre, without edge, without goal. ...it has no limits and no boundary. Everything I see, everything I hear, my own mind and the sky, all merge.”
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche