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Welcome dear yogis! Joy is on retreat through March. (She will still receive text messages and email letters, albeit not every day) —————————————————————————————- Following is the upcoming Spring/Summer listing of events: ** WITH THE SIMULTANEOUS AND FULL EMBRACE...

Dharma Days are a one-day opportunity, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to take a personal tour in the Theravadan Vipassana meditation traditional practices of sitting, walking, eating and loving-kindness/metta. It’s a great chance for beginning meditators to get their feet wet, and for oldies to refresh their practice. We also do a mild 50-minute stretching/yoga/or creative movement session. An organic vegetarian lunch will be served. No charge...

Greetings from Battambong, Cambodia, dears. My balcony looks down on Klong 2.0, here in the marketplace. Life happens three stories down below. It’s relatively quiet and breezy up here. And why are the monks carrying umbrellas, you may wonder? Temperatures are often in the high 90’s, approaching 100 degrees. My shoulders, knees and midriff remain covered, however, like the local Khmer women, when I’m out in public. In my sixty years...

This newsletter from Joy comes after several days at the south campus of SDS, a three-hour drive from Bangkok. To Read/Download the full newsletter #8 (pdf) Click Here hanging out with my tribe of Karin teenagers, the fifteen local village kids who chose to come live here several years ago When I indicated that I wanted to help plant the cosmos, for example, they quickly: *dug the holes *piled up dirt all around the holes *placed the...

In this newsletter #7, read about Joy’s thoughts on Annica & Annatta, Kidde Cafe, Sports Day, and Green Tara … Click to open/download pdf

Hello again, dear readers. Many of you are experiencing sub-zero temperatures up north, with blizzards. I wonder whether it is a form of cruelty to send these photos to your side of the world… although some of you are delighted with the snow, the quiet, the mysterious frost etchings on your window panes. I spent many wonderful winters in Montana and Wisconsin. I remember the gifts of splitting wood, stoking the stove,...

Hello again dear readers… or, more properly around here: Dhamma sawadhi kha 🙏 .(Greetings, in the spirit of Dhamma) My braincells are starting to seep back in ….and it’s such a relief! Someone please remind me if/when you hear me denigrating the mind…which is fairly fashionable in Buddhist circles. I slept well, and awoke to the sound of the nuns chanting next door, as they do every morning around 5:15. Such a charming wakeup...

Hola, dear readers. No, this is not a Mexican kitty..This is Tater Bug, seen here contemplating the sunset. She lives in Little Rock with my friend Becky. I’ve been thinking about aliens lately, and what that means…For instance, when I go down to the bay every morning before dawn, wearing my down jacket, a cap, leg warmers, an alpaca poncho and three layers of clothes beneath all that…. and I encounter these people: Which of us is the...

Hello again, dear readers. Thanks for your heartfelt response to the first Tales, dears. Some of you will probably receive duplicate copies, since my readership file is a glitch-filled rat’s-nest and seems to have lost or omitted about half of the original recipients… let me know if you receive several copies, please. A couple of you shared your own bobcat and panther tales, and of having your experience denied (especially regarding...

Hello again, dear readers. It’s been an extraordinarily long time since the last installment, hasn’t it? This is because I dropped the ball last year, after about four Tales…I was pretending that no one really had time to read them, and that I was just too busy to write them. However, an astounding number of you have mentioned to me, without rancor but with an irrefutable intensity, that you do indeed WAIT to hear the next...

Saturday, April 5, 2025 (10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) We will be practicing the various forms of Vipassana Buddhist meditation:** Sitting (no sessions more than 30-40 minutes), various types of practices.** Walking (both indoor and outdoor)** An hour-long movement/yoga session** Eating (lunchtime will be silent, with special focus on the food)** Metta/Lovingkindness practice The practice of Noble Silence will be observed all day, except...