Rusty Ring

incola ego sum apud te in terra et peregrinus sicut omnes patres mei. Psalterium Sancti Hieronymi, 38:13 (English translation...

I first encountered the oft-cited invocation below in a newspaper column by United Congregational minister Dale Turner. At the time I ass...

One lonely commandment: If you don't like it, don't be it. (Photo courtesy of Danh Đãnh and Unsplash.com .)

Some months ago I had a refreshing conversation on Zen ethics with a fellow hermit on Mastodon. We're equally sceptical of quietis...

Enlightenment is the stated goal of Buddhism, possibly the only doctrine all denominations share, though variously defined. As ...

Liberate yourself from everything that doesn't concern you. Don't depend on people or on situations. Look for your refuge and...

Though it's generally unknown to Western Buddhists, Russia is one of the formative homelands of our religion. Not only has Buddhis...

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ...

Long ago, in the first years of my Zen practice, I encountered a teaching that's remained in my mind through the intervening year...

I never get used to the fact that there's exactly one religion on this planet. Or humanity's eternal frantic protest that there...

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

Palladius said, "One day when I was suffering from boredom I went to Abba Macarius and said, 'What shall I do? My thoughts aff...

(From the monks' graveyard. Evidently, Brother Lawrence also worshipped at the altar of the Seahawks.) Appearing also on My C...

"Do not repay anyone evil for evil." Romans 12:17 – a tighter restatement of my own earlier effort . (Photo courtesy ...

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

So another visit to the annals of early Buddhism has yielded a further bit of provocative trivia: subitism is very old. Possibly as old...

Recently stumbled over this in the course of a Zen surf: Smokey Bear Sutra It's Gary Snyder's 1969 bid to raise Smokey Bear ...

"One of the monks, called Serapion, sold his book of the Gospels and gave the money to those who were hungry, saying: 'I...

A few years ago I read a Brad Warner post about getting others into Zen. Brad was typically circumspect on the notion, but he did ad...

I'd been a hermit monk for 5 years when I heard on my truck radio that after the news the host would speak with a US Army chaplain j...