by mugwortborn | Aug 7, 2016 |
I don’t know what I will be called in my next life. I actually don’t know if I will be reborn in a sphere where there is such a thing as a name. Do beetles have names? Probably my current name Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse will be given to a child of an...
by mugwortborn | Jun 9, 2016 |
EPISODE FOUR: Hidden Lands One of my strongest memories is of my family’s smoky kitchen with its clay hearth and a platform hung from the rafters holding the firewood. Here, vegetables were chopped, tea was churned, and our nostrils turned black as we fed the...
by mugwortborn | May 15, 2016 |
The dictionary definition of reincarnation is “the rebirth of a soul in a new body.” People who don’t believe in a soul, who think that when you die you disintegrate like a dandelion or evaporate like steam on pavement, cannot accept that once upon a...
by mugwortborn | Apr 24, 2016 |
EPISODE TWO: To Cry or Not To Cry After barely surviving more than half a century of this hallucination of life—having driven thousands of miles on some of the most treacherous roads in places like India and Bhutan, having flown hundreds of thousands of miles around...
by mugwortborn | Mar 31, 2016 |
EPISODE ONE: Leaving Home My life is an apparition, a hallucination, a projection that has yet to dim. This apparition has a timeframe, a logic, and just like the sun, it will set. Depending on the swinging of my mood, this life sometimes appears long and sometimes...
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