Rusty Ring

(Another Buddhist thrift store find . This time it's a Thai frog rattle – essentially, a moktak-style percussion instrument with adde...

(I found these by the side of the road while riding my bike. They're meditation chimes. There's a small broken hanger on th...

"You start out feeling, 'Oh Lord, I hate this' and then later on you feel 'Oh boy this is wonderful', and you're ...

Regular readers of this blog know that I generally eschew material attachments in Zen practice. We humans have a tendency to pile up insig...

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, b...

Here's some breaking news on subjects I've broached in the past, of no particular internal relevance and in no particular order. F...

This is an ancestor gong I made from an old saw blade I found in my grandfather's shop. Each time you ring it, it sings gratitude...