A Pure World Posted on 03/12/2023 by Michael Gray “In this pure world, there is no sense of loss and of complicity in loss.” Dynamics of Time and Space, by Tarthang Tulku. This...
Appreciation in the Midst of it All Posted on 08/07/2022 by Michael Gray “The real mystery is not somewhere else. It’s right here in what we call reality, or truth, or daily life. It’s in confusion and...
I Wish I Knew Posted on 03/14/2021 by Michael Gray I wonder why the light feels so painful. Is it a migraine coming on? Or is it that when you’re being interrogated by police...
Maybe Light My Fire Posted on 12/04/2018 by Michael Gray In the natural world, or at least when human ingenuity impinges upon it, we see moths flying into candle flames and hovering around porch...
BE the Squirrel (3 by Ken McKeon) Posted on 06/12/2018 by Michael Gray Thanks, Nancy You want the news. Well, out back a dying tree Found a degree of New life with late springtime rain, I mean...
“Time—Enter Stage Right” Posted on 04/10/2018 by Michael Gray “But the plan of action is determined And the end irrevocably sealed. I am alone; all round me drowns in falsehood: Life is not...
Do Dolphins Dream of Eclectic Sleep? Posted on 10/31/2017 by Michael Gray Like sharks, dolphins cannot experience REM sleep. For different reasons, neither species can ever fall asleep in comfortable stillness, and leave their day time...
An Open Secret Posted on 08/01/2017 by Michael Gray I sometimes imagine that I have been let in on a secret about the meaning and purpose of human life—but that I only have...
Freedom of Mind, Mind of Freedom Posted on 01/25/2017 by Michael Gray I doubt that I’m the only one who has felt like the mouse in Kafka’s “A Little Fable”: “ALAS”, said the mouse, “the world...
Coming Ashore Posted on 08/23/2016 by Michael Gray Was it a bad move to come ashore? Has humanity benefited from leaving home, and setting up shop on the shoreline? The daily news...