Rusty Ring

"Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them." Dōgen

( Update, 13 October 2025: The YouTube file I originally embedded here has gone 404, but I found this one to replace it. Though I have...

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

Among many incisive observations in Adam Savage's maker manifesto Every Tool is a Hammer , I found this boldest: "There is no...

"Do not emulate others' wrongdoing. See to your own virtue." Dōgen (Photo courtesy of Jay Castor and Unsplash....

I've been rereading The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching , the succinct little Thich Nhat Hanh book that amounts, so far as I...

'Way back in March of 2012 CE (how strange to have such a deep vault) I reviewed Zen at War , Brian Daizen Victoria's exposé o...

Greetings, honoured sangha. This week I offer Japanese for Zenners , with this basal concept: マインドフルネス 。 Can't read it? Let ...

"Take your inspiration from those who, long ago, went to live in the far-off mountains and practice ascetic discipline in distant wo...

Most books available in the West on life in Japanese monasteries are written by Westerners. Perhaps that's why they tend to take...

"This is gonna be a short movie." That's what I thought when I bought Zen (禅), a biodrama about Eihei Dogen , founder ...