Silence

For no particular reason that I am aware of, the following lines sometimes pop up in my consciousness: ‘Hell is wide beyond measure, deep without a ground’. What’s really coming up is the Old English version of these lines, which I am too lazy to look up. They’re in a book that’s in a box [...]

This morning I interviewed Neten Chokling Rinpoche about his film Milarepa. I left home in a hurry and cycled to the Amsterdam address where he was staying with his wife. Rinpoche was very friendly and it was easy to chat with him. The interview was scheduled from 10.45 to 11.15 am. A full half hour [...]

My mother sent me a postcard from Portugal saying how pleased she was to see a photo of a beautiful goddess on my web-site. She’d finally managed to log in and surf the net from her Portuguese address and there was this goddess waiting for her on my blog. She didn’t mean me, I am [...]

The question is: why blog at all? To me it is largely a matter of writing as an exercise, to have an incentive to write, to keep writing. And now I’ve started to ramble in English as well. This is mainly due to my frustration about the people that know me and cannot read my [...]