It is all One Taste.

“Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die and it is uncertain when or how we will die.” Sogyal Rinpoche.

The links on this page are to various, usually relatively current, pieces I have written ruminating on what “it all means” and “is this all there is”. A main focus of these writings is often my own mortality and how I am addressing that in view of the fact that I am certainly an agnostic if not an atheist. I do though fully appreciate that the vast, perhaps infinite and very often mysterious Universe can be holding many secrets and perhaps even ultimate truths that my current minimalist state of personal evolution can simply not grasp or begin to appreciate. To say my own personal spiritual growth and development is a work in progress is quite the understatement.

The Spiritual path I have come to be able to best relate to is Buddhism. I am currently not involved with any community or sect but do have a half-assed practice that has been influenced and informed over the years by many teachers to whom I am truly indebted. My mother of course was my best teacher and she was very often exhorting me to “please sit still and be quiet”. That of course is a core directive of so many of the world’s great spiritual traditions.