Rusty Ring

(I made this fudo [look left; hanging from the bell] in 2009, for friends in Spokane County. When I took care of their farm for a few...

This graphic illustrates the grandfather paradox, a secular koan demonstrating the inability of the human mind to grasp reality. A...

"You may not believe in hell, but hell believes in you." (A message from this station and Fudo Myō-ō.) (Ph...

Back in 2023 I wrote a post about another post I wrote in 2015 on the topic of forgiveness. As a prime example, I referred to the cas...

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 ...

I'm not much of a rock. As a Zenner I aspire to be unmovable. Fudo Myō-ō , the patron of my practice, has made a career of it. And...

"To dwell in the three realms is to dwell in a burning house." Bodhidharma (Photo of The Blue Fudo – Natio...

Today I will sit In this place, unmoving, Until I have transcended all suffering Or until my legs begin to hurt In which case, I wi...

Fictional bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kuan Yin, Guanyin, Kanzeon, Kannon, Gwan-eum, Quan Âm) incarnates a specific insight about the nat...

Nylon twine cord, malleable washer ring. Here are a few garden fudos with eight-strand kongo kumihimo cords. (Kongo means "twi...

This week I'm posting a video tribute to Fudo , patron bodhisattva of my monastic practice. I chose John's cover for the sole reason...

Don't panic. As Douglas Adams might have said, had he been a hermit, building the hundred-year fudo is a snap for the hoopy frood who ...

A trio of large fudos await assignment by the woodstove Making and hanging fudos is part of my practice. Regulars will have noted photos...

But the good news is I did change my heart. It just took a while to generate the will. And that's my right. I also get better at this s...

Depression is the elephant in the meditation hall. Virtually all Zenners suffer from it; nobody becomes a monk because he's happy. Bu...