Dorje LIng, Life of Carmen, Uncategorized

All the ladies in the house

The Babbling Buddha draws a stream of wondrous and wondering women. They wander up the path one by one, every fourth or fifth in tears (like me, when i drifted under those prayer flags for the first time). Blinking, slightly shell-shocked. And fuck-it-all, free. I came home to meet Elena and Apple sitting at the …

Dorje LIng, Life of Carmen, Uncategorized, Zen & Dharma

Talking down a dragonfly

I am noticing how finely attuned my senses are right now, to the sounds, the smells, the buzzing life of the earth all around me. I went into the Meditation Hall, knelt by the altar and said my prayer: Until I awaken, I take refuge in the buddha (the light within), the dharma (my teachers …

Life of Carmen, Uncategorized

Arcosanti revisited

Once again I find myself mysteriously, in a place of pure Love…built plank by plank by one man’s will and vision, as a gift to the community and the future. And as it is, pure Love, it is crazy and beautiful, extreme and irrational, crumbling and decaying and fertile and fecund, sensuous and heart-achingly beautiful…a …

Bicycles, Karmic Economics, Life of Carmen, Politics & Activism, Uncategorized

Going Car-Free

<<delivered at The Great Turning: the Be The Change Unconference, May 23, 2009>> My name is Carmen Mills. I am a Vancouver-centered Director of Free Will. I am really stoked about the fact that people are finally starting to figure out that we can actually reclaim our freedom by letting go of our cars. A …