Wholeness has intrigued me ever since we boys built sandcastles on the beach. You built a perfect world. You surrounded it with a moat. You looked up and there was some incongruous beach chair, a blanket, or simply somebody’s leg, out of scale and totally out of context. No way to bring this out-of-bounds reality into your wholeness. So I learned the lesson early on: Wholeness is not truly whole until it is all-inclusive. Later, this insight gave me a key to the “Ten Oxherding Pictures” in Zen...  MORE

Daniel Dhanapati McCoy, former director of the Integral Yoga Institute of Detroit, was diagnosed with ALS and prior to his recent passing wrote this for fellow sangha members.
   In the mid-1970s, I traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to attend a spiritual conference at which Swami Satchidananda was the keynote speaker. I was kindly included in the dinner for teachers the evening prior. Gurudev and I arrived together a bit early as tables were just beginning to fill. We noticed an elegant, middle-aged, blind woman...  MORE