Archives: May 2002

Friday, May 31, 2002

Up until yesterday, everything I have been posting under "reflections" on my web site has been written some time before my posting it. However, I stopped writing in the last weeks before the Creating Our Future Memorial Weekend Workshop, as I was too busy, and because I wanted what I post to be more current. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 08:19 AM PST [Link]

Thursday, May 30, 2002

Well, it is over. The Creating Our Future Memorial Weekend Workshop has come and gone. Overall, the workshop was a great success. As my friend, Van Jones, said: [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 09:29 AM PST [Link]

Thursday, May 23, 2002

Sometime it is hard to find the appropriate balance between reacting appropriately to the needs of the times, and the danger of allowing oneself to live in a perpetual state of crisis. I spent much of my life as a young activist in that perpetual state of crisis. It is not useful, to the planet or to oneself to live that way. It is also not useful to turn oneself off to what is going on around us. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 07:56 AM PST [Link]

Wednesday, May 22, 2002

It seems to me that we (me, you, and us) are asleep to the exigencies of the time. Many years ago, Dan Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers), speaking at the Stanford Meeting of the Ways Conference, painted a horrific picture of the future. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 08:18 AM PST [Link]

Monday, May 20, 2002

May Day was the holiday of the old left. It would be interesting to learn how such a delightfully pagan holiday became associated with the portentous somberness of the Communists. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 07:24 AM PST [Link]

Friday, May 17, 2002

Late in 1967, the extended Digger community, also known as "the free families" began to have a series of meetings, which ultimately led to the establishment of some of the early intentional communities of that era. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 05:44 AM PST [Link]

Thursday, May 16, 2002

Yesterday was Earth Day. I did not do enough with respect to the day. Indeed, I barely acknowledged it, except to write "Happy Earth Day" on some of the emails I sent out. Perhaps some of the lack of observance comes from my early Creating Our Future Days (back when COF was a youth organization), and from my Rainforest Cereals business. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 08:04 AM PST [Link]

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

I just came back from a week of Khalsa Council meetings in Espanola, New Mexico. The Khalsa Council is a leadership body for the 3HO Sikh Community. I have been a member since its inception, when it was just composed of Regional Directors. It is the place where we meet as peers on our spiritual path. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 06:37 AM PST [Link]

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

One day, when I was still Executive Director of the War Resister’s League-west, I was walking through the hall at Venture House, on my way to my office, when I heard someone say: "Artaud said, ‘that the creation of the stage was the destruction of the theater’."

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Posted by Sat Santokh @ 07:53 AM PST [Link]

Monday, May 13, 2002

"Trouble ahead, trouble behind." A fragment of a Grateful Dead song comes to mind, as I think about what is going on about us. And, I find, at the moment, that I would rather think about the Grateful Dead, and how I came to be with them, than about the other stuff. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 07:32 AM PST [Link]

Friday, May 10, 2002

Jean Shepherd had an all night a radio program I used to listen to when I was in college. He would frequently start his program saying, over a bizarre piece of music: "Here he comes, 20th century man. Trudging over the hill. Will he make it?" Well, we made it through the 20th century, but will we make it through the 21st? [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 08:03 AM PST [Link]

Thursday, May 9, 2002

These days, Mondays are generally my day off, as I usually am leading a workshop on the weekend. There is a temptation to dive right into the work on Monday, but I find that the vehicle with which I have been equipped requires at least one down day per week. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 06:57 AM PST [Link]

Wednesday, May 8, 2002

What to do about the Middle East, about Israel & Palestine? Is there no way out? I have decided to ask Rabbi Michael Lerner (of Tikkun) to attend the COF Memorial Weekend Workshop. It would not make sense to have a workshop entitled "Awakening to Meet the Challenge of the Times," without addressing one of the most significant challenges of these times. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 07:59 AM PST [Link]

Monday, May 6, 2002

Where does the hate and cruelty come from? Why is it so endemic? There was a time when I thought it all flowed, in the USA, from the all-pervasive presence of alcoholism, consequent dysfunctional homes, and abused childhoods. Perhaps there is some connection, maybe even a substantial one. But cruelty is a worldwide problem, including cultures where there is no alcoholism. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 08:01 AM PST [Link]

Friday, May 3, 2002

In the early morning, after the rain, it was as clear as the high Arizona desert can be. The air was intoxicating. Even though we had gone to sleep so late the night before, just about all the students were waiting for me at 7:30 for morning yoga. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 07:56 AM PST [Link]

Thursday, May 2, 2002

I was sitting on the porch of a Tibetan Buddhist Temple high up in the mountains in the Arizona desert. Huge vistas unfolded in every direction. It was cloudy night, and the full moon ducked in and out of the clouds. We could see as far as the San Francisco Peaks, way off in the distance, as the moonlight glistened off its snow-covered crest. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 06:08 AM PST [Link]

Wednesday, May 1, 2002

I was putting on an event quite a few year’s ago (in the early 70’s), and had chosen a friend named Armando to do the poster for the event. At that time, for that kind of event, posters were they way to go. I had given all the info to Armando, but he had not yet produced the poster. I called on him three days in a row. He was living, at the time, on Allan Watts’ houseboat in Sausalito. [more]

Posted by Sat Santokh @ 06:32 AM PST [Link]

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