Update in Progress!

Please bear with us until we complete the transition to WordPress!

New and exciting layout and options as part of WoodMoor Village.org’s

move to the WordPress platform. We are moving from Typepad and setting

this new version up in WordPress will take some time, and getting used

to the new way of doing things. Excuse [...]

I Ask The Impossible (Ana Castillo)

I Ask The Impossible (Ana Castillo) I ask the impossible: love me forever. Love me when all desire is gone. Love me with the single mindedness of a monk. When the world in its entirety, and all that you hold sacred advise you against it: love me still more. When rage fills you and has no name: love me. When each step from [...]

Midrashim

By necessity every book must have at least one flaw; a misprint, a

missing page, one imperfection. … the Rabbis … point out that even in

the holiest of books, the scroll resting inside the Ark, the Name of

Names is inscribed in code so that no one might say it out loud, and

chance [...]

About this Site

WoodMoor Village represents a simple attempt to give form to a

post-humanist practice of mindfulness, and a gathering of the threads

that help me develop what Jack Kornfield has called A Path With Heart,

an ethical approach to life. WoodMoor Village has been around since 1996

in various incarnations. The Typepad.com version started in June [...]

Re-Post: Walking the Holy Land w/ Thoreau

As I sit here and contemplate my ongoing O-Soji (mental and

otherwise), I thought I’d repost an entry from three years ago, one that

I find always speaks deeply to me. As I was engaged in my end of year

clearing of the decks (O-Soji), this piece popped into my head. Not

because it is [...]