Rusty Ring

Matsuo Bashō (芭蕉) was a wandering Zen hermit of the Edo period, as well as an accomplished poet. Popularly considered the father of mo...

(Stopped for a rest on a long bike ride the other day and noticed the picnic table pretty much told the whole story. Helmet, gloves, grano...

If you'd like to explore a rich source of provocative, not overly-technical Zen reads, check out Sotozen.com . Among its many offe...

There’s always a very inconsiderable minority of these non-joiners. [...] But you will find that insecure societies are the most in...

Alan Watts once said, "Now I’m a grandfather, and so I am no longer in awe of grandfathers." If I liked this 20 years ago, wh...

As non-Vajrayana Western converts to Buddhism will tell you, we have a slightly awkward relationship with Tibet. Not that we have an...

"The biggest ego-trip going is getting rid of your ego." Alan Watts (Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

This week I encountered a piece of apparent fluff from The Stranger , Seattle's edgier (or maybe just more sophomoric) alternative n...

Update, 2023 16 November: Unfortunately this source has gone pay-to-play, and all shared podcasts I've been able to uncover are...

"One day a myoko-nin [wandering hermit monk] was traveling and he stopped in a Buddhist temple overnight. He went up to the sanctuary ...