Rusty Ring

This morning a brother in my Twitter sangha posted the following five paragraphs from the Pali canon ( Dutiyaassutavāsutta, SN 12.62 ). ...

In killing my Self The monster is defeated Eat my Zen, dickweed ("Enrag'd Monster" courtesy of John Hamilton Mortimer,...

Back in the 50s, writer and comedian Carl Reiner pitched a sitcom based on his own life, starring himself, to the new CBS Television ne...

The more practice I get under my hara, the more I notice that most Zen really isn't very revolutionary, or even revelatory. It...

Leaves fall gently down Like rain into autumn pools Who writes this bullshit? (Photo courtesy of Robert Wnuk a...

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

I learned this meditation from AJ Smith of Restoration Church, an urban Evangelical congregation in Philadelphia featured on Gimlet...

"This is not mine, this is not I, this is not myself.” the Buddha (Photo courtesy of Max Pixel and a generous photographer...

When my brother and I were four and five, we were obsessed with the Dr. Suess poem What Was I Scared Of? , better known to adherents as ...

I have Christian friends who revel in the notion that God attends to them personally, that they are important. But true peace lies in ...

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself And there isn...

Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away When I came home...

I recently encountered this graphic on Facebook. Sums up the situation nicely, though I might have called the right wing of Integrity ...

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

Two days ago I found this teaching in my Twitter feed: "Treat non-useful thoughts like undesirable smells: don't dwell on them...

This haiku is my solution to the koan, "Why do I write this blog?" Zen emphasises no-self, that is, that the sense we have o...