-
8 August 2019A collection of Bonni’s blog posts from 1997 to 2008. It’s called “Bonni’s Blog Collection” to infer that these are explorations, and not polished pieces. This collection includes many of her common themes. You will hear her voice in all of them. They were lovingly collected from the Sunshine Coast... -
7 August 2015We hear a lot today about the need for relief from physical illness or stress, and very often that is what causes an investigation of meditation to begin. Another cause is emotional turmoil of some kind, which eases into a temporary calm or peace during meditation. Both of these categories... -
7 August 2015To write of love is to lack vocabulary: I could lie beside you on the night grass, Navigating the vastness of dark and light that is sky; Smelling the damp mother-body of the good ground; Ears quickening to silence, to rustle; to the hum and purr of stars; Tasting coffee to stay... -
7 August 2015We do this work to expand awareness, deepen wisdom and increase compassion for the benefit of all beings. What is meditation? It may interest you to know that in the ancient language of the culture where these practices were first developed, there wasn’t a word which exactly translates as “meditation”. This... -
26 March 2015To all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Ten Directions and the Three Times: Please hear my prayer! Protect me from seduction by the subtle mind of preference And its supportive logic in story. Help me to see directly the shaping of my conditioning And acquire the skill to free myself from it. Alert me to... -
27 January 2015I never saw a whooping crane But sometimes, in the summer night I would fall asleep under the covers Under the covers we put over our heads My cousins and me When grandpa came ’round with the bug spray “So you don’t get eaten alive,” he said And I would fall asleep safe from bugs And all eating... -
23 January 2015We do this work to expand awareness, deepen wisdom and increase compassion for the benefit of all beings. First of all, I’d like to refresh your memory of the Jungian mandala of the four functions of the human being which we spoke about last week. Do you recall what they are?... -
18 December 2014There is no awakening without compassionate action. Many practitioners find their growth and unfoldment has stalled, even though their skills as meditators are well-honed, and their lives well- founded in the practices of non-harming. How can this be? One contributing factor is misunderstanding the importance of service, in the context of... -
11 December 2014Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d tow’rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave... -
27 July 2012Why Dharma Teachers Don’t Charge Fees November 2007 “The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.” by Ralph Waldo Emerson The act of giving strengthens the giver and supports the receiver. To provide practitioners with opportunities to practice generosity is part...
