The dakinis (Sanskrit: “sky-goers”; goddesses who appear in many forms) confront the Indian tantric master Tilopa (988-1069), challenging Tilopa with their own tantric doha: The born-blind looks at, but he cannot see the forms; A deaf man listens to, but he cannot hear the sounds; An idiot speaks, but he cannot understand the meaning. At […]

The first time I watched Nikola Jokic play a few years ago, he came off the bench, replacing Jusuf Nurkic as center for the Denver Nuggets.  The Nuggets got the ball and went on offense, where Jokic situated himself at the foul line.  With one flip of the ball over his head, it flew over […]

  In the Indian tradition of Buddhist poetry, as inherited and practiced by the Tibetans, we get a predominant didacticism–it’s poetry that’s meant to explain the dharma to you. But that’s not everyone. The Indian siddhas (Sanskrit: “realized ones,” “accomplished ones”) aren’t so academic sounding, though they may be teaching dharma; when they speak , […]