Category: who am I?
Posted on July 14, 2019
Zen Newcomer Sees It as an Insider’s Game
The other day, I read a Facebook comment from a Zen newcomer. The basic idea was that Zen is an insider’s game of haves and have-nots. The suggestion was that those in the group, those that are… Read More
FollowPosted on September 14, 2018
Good Cop, Bad Cop
The enemy of spiritual awakening is duality. First of all, the idea that here I am and out there is everything else, is a mind trick. I am rereading Chögyam Trungpa’s “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”. The book… Read More
Posted on August 28, 2018
Zen and Interdependence
Interdependence is a zen concept that frowns upon the tendency of our minds to isolate. You cannot see the flower without seeing the stem. The leaves are the flower and the ground is where the flower… Read More
Posted on March 22, 2014
the dwelling
Dhammapada 150 Around the bones is built a house, plastered over with flesh and blood — in which dwell pride and pretence, old age and death.
