July 4: Personal freedom and personal responsibility

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The endless debate between gun-rights advocates and the need for addressing the senseless violence in our country is a disconnect between ideas of personal freedom and personal responsibility. The violence in American streets and in our schools will not be solved by arming teachers in the classroom.

Elder Wisdom: The sacredness of our secular lives

Too many people still think of the secular and the sacred as separate categories. We can make distinctions, but real separation is misleading. We live in one interlinked world.

Reviews for “Chewing Down My Barn”

“Eugene Bianchi’s poems reveal a healthy maladjustment, a holy irreverence which merges insights from a life in academe with Christian, Buddhist, and delightfully agnostic views." - Don Foran, professor and editor

Webs of Life

Spirituality has been widely enlarged for me by Buddhist and Daoist insights as well as by Muslim and Christian mystics. The carpenter bees of aging are further clearing the field for me, bringing me down to experience the simplicity of God in every molecule of the universe.

Centerstage Buddhas

Hello friends, my poetry often includes animals. They are nature's true teachers and I am fortunate to learn from them every day here on the banks of the Oconee. My two "cat familiars" Max and Tony continue to be the centerstage Buddhas in my…