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Behold the brazen strut
From high-minded bigmouths
Amid sharp-shooters

I wrote this poem dedicated to Reggie, a senior Teacher in the Trungpa lineage with whom I studied in the Masters of Buddhist Studies program at Naropa Institute (now university) in the early 1980’s.
Reggie was a gifted and charismatic academic professor who later became a spiritual guru and founder of Dharma Ocean. While a student I was initially the only female in an incoming class of 8 tudents. From the beginning, Reggie’s behavior made me uncomfortable...

I found the following notation in my papers. The quote “Life without a Companion” comes from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche during the Mahayana teaching of 1986 seminary. For years I contemplated its meaning like a zen koan. I must have jotted this down during...

The Light of the world is Love
Shinning forth
Outside time