Michael Ash

In by Erik Pema Kunsang

Michael Ash is a photographer, filmmaker, poet and visionary. He is the founder of the dharma and art projects, The Yogini Project, Dharma Eye, Dakini As Art, and Oddiyan’s Gate. He presently is working on a documentary film Women On The Path for The Yogini Project.

WHITE SKULL MOUNTAIN – GANGRI TOKAR

THE DREAM

PURE LANDS – A POEM

KAILASH

Since the beginning of all time until the end of all time there lives a ruler of a vast kingdom between myriads of interstellar clouds and within each single sentient being. May this timeless king of ancient lineage born in the foam of a colorful- iridescent sea of arising stardust remember his royal descent. May he wake up to the holistic realization of his eternally pulsating universe of body, speech and mind within an ocean of nourishing light for the benefit of all living beings as there are as many as shooting stars in a meteor stream.
-Sonja-Maria Teufel-Schmarsli
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Living in a world focused on what is outside us, and not looking within, we are taught from a young age that we need to become something more than we are right now. We are encouraged to always be doing: we must learn; we must buy; we must acquire and achieve. And for absolute certain we must become better than we are right now just sitting here doing nothing. The Buddha taught the opposite. He said that by learning to let the mind be, just as it is right now, all our good qualities can unfold from within.
-Heidi Koppl
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