http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/ en-us 2008-03-05T11:30:13-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000305.html In 1968 and '69 my home as a U.S. soldier in Vietnam was a lonely mountaintop in the jungle called Landing Zone Bayonet, north of Quang Ngai and southwest of Chu Lai. Our "LZ" was... Tony 2008-03-05T11:30:13-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000303.html Images often come in a flash. But just because they happen quickly doesn’t necessarily lessen their impact. In fact, sometimes quickness even makes them stronger. One image remains with me even now, indelible, as if... Tony 2007-04-11T19:16:00-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000302.html My younger son Andrew and I spent the past two years producing a 64-minute documentary exploring the lifestyle of the forest-dwelling Theravada Buddhist monks who have chosen to live only on gifts offered by the... Tony 2006-08-16T08:53:21-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000300.html This week my son Andrew and I completed work on "Fearless Mountain" a one hour documentary about the monks at the Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery. We've been working on the project for a year and a... Tony 2006-05-31T14:35:20-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000299.html In the 1960’s (you might remember them) when emotions were raging, when the war in Vietnam was going full-tilt, we were bombing Hanoi and National Guard troops were shooting students at Kent State. Stories about... Tony 2006-03-15T17:35:44-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000298.html MY SUNDAY COLUMN IN THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL, AUGUST 21st. When we get angry, isn’t our anger usually based on fear? Doesn’t anger come about when we’re afraid of something that threatens us—something more powerful,... Tony 2005-08-24T14:08:31-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000297.html It took awhile—about ten 40-minute DV tapes—for my brother-in-law and I to realize we had irreconcilable creative differences. When our differences became strong enough to prevent us from moving forward, we did what good brothers-in-law... Tony 2005-08-06T08:43:29-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000296.html Why on earth would anyone want to take time off (six months) from blogging? As bloggers know, blogging, like journal writing, is such a wonderful form of expression. My answer would is, "to make a... Tony 2005-08-05T15:12:44-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000295.html I used to be intrigued by the space between things--distances. Lately, I've notived that objects themselves have equally much to say. There is a tree in my backyard with bright pink blossoms which would take... Tony 2005-07-31T13:47:21-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000294.html Okay, so all these experiences of what I’ll call the truth with a capital T sound like just so much hogwash. And probably trying to put the experience into words fails miserably. If I simply... Tony 2005-06-11T10:03:36-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000293.html After I awakened at 2:00 A.M. the following is what I wrote in the dark, in my notebook. The Silence – All of life dances on the surface of it. All effort is non-effort. The... Tony 2005-06-07T16:12:30-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000292.html This begins, The Story of My Awakening. When I sat in the seat in Santa Monica beside Adyashanti, he told me. "There is no need to struggle any more. Your journey ends here. Right here,... Tony 2005-06-05T21:34:04-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000291.html Driving down the state from Ukiah to San Diego turned out to be a pleasant sightseeing journey with time spent alone with one of my sons. Heading back home to Ukiah, however, was a journey... Tony 2005-04-08T12:55:39-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000290.html The last time I drove the length of the State of California was in a Volkswagen Microbus, which I’d painted with a brush and some available paint—white on the bottom with an orange roof. I... Tony 2005-04-06T09:23:46-08:00 http://www.beneathbuddhaseyes.com/journal/archives/000289.html A few years after I returned from Vietnam I checked myself into the VA hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. My symptoms were uncontrollable anger, nightmares which would wake me up, sweating, a metabolism that raced,... Tony 2004-12-23T15:38:57-08:00