Rusty Ring

"Having children takes talent, like any creative thing." Maurice Sendak (Photo courtesy of Seth Anderson and Wikime...

(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...

So here we are on another Bodhisattva Day . The statement has subtly become more emphatic in the current environment; even a touch confro...

(That's me in my cardigan on Bodhisattva Day 2014. This year Bodhisattva Day falls on Thursday – i.e., tomorrow. For information on t...

Though it's generally unknown to Western Buddhists, Russia is one of the formative homelands of our religion. Not only has Buddhis...

Today is День защитника Отечества (Defender of the Fatherland Day) in Russia. The date always leads me to a bit of a "on the one han...

"Gratitude to squelch my anger, and tenacity to overcome the obstacles." Henry Winkler's recipe for success. Note that ...

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 ...

"This isn't the final Buddhism; it's just ours." Seth Zuiho Segal (Photo courtesy of Carlos ZGZ and Pxhere.com.)

The didactic, the secular sceptic, and the Buddhist polemicist like to point out that bodhisattva mind is always in us, and it's poss...

I'd been a hermit monk for 5 years when I heard on my truck radio that after the news the host would speak with a US Army chaplain j...

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

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway (Photo of welded saw blades courte...

If you don't know John Gorka, you should know John Gorka. Few artists sing the human heart like John. A number of his songs s...

( Jizo Bodhisattva , patron of children and teachers, is traditionally venerated a variety of ways. Most involve specific gifts left...

"Yoshimura explained that Louise couldn't [study Zen at a Japanese temple] because she wasn't Japanese and would be a b...

We Buddhists like to think nobody wants to be evil. We prefer to imagine that evil is learned, a product of environment, and not in an...

The discursive mind is like a child. It will always get up to stuff. That's its nature. It's the role of the adult – the b...

A few weeks ago a friend directed me to Everything Doesn't Happen For A Reason , by Tim Lawrence. It's attracted an enthusiasti...

This week I'm deferring to Matthew Inman, the Seattle bodhisattva who stands against evil and pointless suffering under the nom de ...