.:. mindfulness fellowship .:.

• Tuesday mornings 9-10:30 a.m.
  Aquatic Park Center ( foot of Polk / across from Ghirardelli ), Room 13
  ( enter thru street-level diningroom & proceed to basement )
  ----- small practice group (8-12), enjoying sitting quietly together,
  walking with the sound of waves, communication & sharing. [since 2010]
  

Books

• as Author
  
  The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism (third edition : Nautilus Book Award), Penguin/Alpha. 2009. [ page on facebook ]
  
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism (2nd edition), Penguin/Alpha. 2004. [ Google Books Preview ]
    
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism, Penguin/Alpha. 2002. [ Online additions to various chapters }
    
  • Writers.net: Every Writer's Guide to Essential Resources & Opportunities, Prima Publishing. 1997. [ online research tools ]
    
  • Pocket Guide to the Internet, Pocket Books. 1996.
    
  • Preparing the Ground: Poems 1960-1970 (illustrations, Brett Rohmer), Heirs Press. 1970.

  as Editor
  
  • What Book!? --- Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop (Parallax Press 1998; American Book Award from Before Columbus Foundation ). 350 selections from 125 contributors. [ Google Books Preview + online additions ]

  as Co-Translator with & Prof Young-moo Kim
  
  • Songs for Tomorrow: A Collection of Poems 1961-2001 by Ko Un (Green Integer, 2008; nominated for Northern California Book Award for Translation). 190 poems from 25 volumes of work, with a long introduction locating the poet in context of his times.
    
  • Flowers of a Moment by Ko Un (BOA Editions; Northern California Book Award for Translation 2007). 185 poems, illustrated by the poet [ Google Books Preview ]
    
  • Ten Thousand Lives by Ko Un (introduction by Robert Hass; Green Integer. 2005). 165 poems from first 10 volumes of this +40-volume magnum opus: one poem for every person he's every known, or known of.

  
  

  Articles ...

  ... take a page of their own ...

  
  ... please contact me for my speaking and teaching and editing CV ...
  

  author page launching Spring 2016

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  Here's the archive of the first decade of my home pages (1997 - 2008), innumerable thanks to the Wayback Machine maintained by the impeccable archivistas at the Internet Archive --- :
  

  i.n.t.e.r.b.e.i.n.g .

  
  & with immeasurable gratitude to the warm-heartedness of this page’s site's gracious, noble, most generous host : the saints at Levity.com (we all could use a little levity in our lives) .