I’m retired! It’s June 1, 2021 and I’m updating this website to reflect my new status. I hope you enjoy the site none-the-less!
I’m a very informal guy. I buy used clothes and wear them until they are worn out. I don’t own a proper suit. So I’ve decided to make this page less formal, or at least way shorter than it has been, so it better reflects who I am, rather than so much detail on how I imagine I got here!
I was born in Boston in 1957 to a mixed couple: Cyrus Kano is Japanese, Dorothy Weinz was white. She was temporarily disowned by her dad in the process of them getting married. I always really respected her for going through with it anyway! I have 3 sisters (I’m #3 of 4), and 2 amazing daughters, born in the 1990’s. My daughters are my biggest blessing to date, beyond life itself. I’m a very lucky dad! Their mother and I didn’t manage to keep our marriage together. I divorced her, when our challenges were too much for me to bare. I decided our girls deserved parents that were happier and more functional, even though they would only be with one of us at a time. For me this has been the biggest failing of my life to date. It has all worked out well in the longer run, after much pain of separation and anger. The girls are wonderful, and their mother has remarried. Now I know life is exactly the way it needs to be. I have no regrets whatsoever. All is forgiven in my heart.
When I was a boy I always loved building things with my dad, who was a mechanical engineer (now long retired). I still love it, but now I love manufacturing multiples as much as the first one! So I’m an inventor that loves to design, tinker, prototype and create. I even tried to get a patent once! Now I’m not comfortable taking money for my ideas. My book is for sale on Amazon, and I’ll keep the price at $10 until I’ve repaid the $1000 I spent to have it professionally edited, then consider lowering it a bit.
I retired from years of computer programming in 2012, much to my relief. The pace of technology is accelerating more than fast enough without my help! I wasn’t exactly a wizard at it anyway, it was a living, and I mostly failed to find another way to support my family, so I did it for the money. Now that my dependents are grown, capable people, I only do what I love and if it makes money, great! That determines my lifestyle: I adjust to live off what comes to me, including social security since 2019. Plus luckily I still have a pretty good credit rating! There is more information about the social context of my life in my longer history page.
Meditation has been an important aspect of my life since I learned Transcendental Meditation in 1975. I’ve practiced meditation of one kind or another for 20-30 minutes, twice a day, ever since. In 1996, (the year my mom died and my daughter Rose was born), I started a practice of non-judgment. Starting in 2015, I took the intention to go “full time” with my mindfulness practice: I stayed with the sense “I am” with every breath throughout the day, as I worked as a one year intern at Koinonia Farm. In the last few years, as my working meditation practice has matured, there are some days, when I’m not leading classes or joining in with a group session, that I do seated meditation just once in the morning. There is more information about my practices in my longer history page.
Through all the years of my life, I’ve enjoyed many benefits of meditation, large and small. At first it just kept my mental health much more functional and happy. The more significant benefits started in 2012, when I realized the radiant beauty of all creation. I’ve enjoyed various states of bliss, which began as an unconditional Love of everything and everyone in 2015 and more recently has included a sense that everything around me is one awesome block of reality, which has literally caused the jaw to drop at times! There is more information about the fruits of my practice in my longer history page.
I attribute none of the fruits I’ve harvested to the seeds of practice I’ve watered through the years. God/Source/Universe provides all the power to make those seeds grow, blossom and ripen! David (ego and “addicted” body/mind) has impeded this process more than anything, as I shed the illusions and hurts he has suffered through the years. The fruits are not David’s either, which is why I’ve created this website and stand ready to serve you in whatever way my heart agrees will help.