Rusty Ring

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

Three weeks ago I wrote about the tendency in Western Zen to downplay the ongoing role of Korea in the development and direction of o...

Among the more dubious traditions of Western Zen is a particularly frustrating custom we might sum up as "crap on Korea". ...

A Western Zenner was visiting sacred sites in the mountains of Korea, when he happened upon the hermit Hyung meditating beside a stre...

(My mother's neighbour is Korean, and every spring I see her in her front yard, drying great quantities of bracken fiddlehead...

We're hearing a lot these days about patriotism and national greatness and ideological purity and economic theory and cold dead fing...

(This is one of those compact white hardhats that workers wear in Asia. This one turned up on the high tideline after a gale. I picture a...

Here's one you gotta see. No, I mean you gotta see it . Because I can't describe it. (Goes on to describe movie.) Kim Ki-duk...

It's springtime, the annual Woodstock of foragers, so I'm going to post another wild edibles tip while the news is hot. And i...