by Cheng Tong | Jul 25, 2019 | Stillness
A friend of mine with whom I enjoy an occasional lunch, a prolific writer and author, recently gave me a book of his poetry. He had inscribed it to me with: ?In search of universal truth.? A week or two later, we ran into each other at a social gathering, and he... 
by Cheng Tong | Jul 10, 2019 | Stillness
During that first year in China at my Temple, all of us incoming students were assigned a chore to be performed each morning after breakfast . . . . . cleaning the temples and altars, stocking incense, cleaning the toilet building.? As the elder, I was exempt from...