Rusty Ring

An intoxicant is any external source that draws you deeper into yourself, your beliefs, your egocentrism, and away from direct experien...

The title of this post is a line from Mad Max: Fury Road , the 2015 instalment of the Mad Max film series. Much has been said abo...

Here's insight we can use. In this short meditation, Rusty Ring favourite Peter Mayer sums up the lesson we all should have l...

« Un mauvais film, on quitte la salle, mais un mauvais siècle? On le subit, on lui tourne le dos ou on le corrige. » Félix Leclerc ...

"I'm going to try speaking some reckless words and I want you to listen to them recklessly." Zhang Wuzi Quoted in Zhuan...

So it's July again, the month when the Internet takes a vacation and I can post stuff that's just cool and not necessarily abou...

Insight from a sangha-mate on Mastodon (appropriately enough): One of the most important ideas to sit with – amid the convulsion ...

I was homophobic as a young man. It's true the logging town I grew up in wasn't the cultural nexus of the world, but that's...

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln...

Here's a good meditation for sojourners my age. Here at the crossroads of life, when most of ours is behind us, and what we have ...

"The only things stopping me today are genetics, lack of will, income, brain chemistry, and external events." Eddie Pepitone...

I think Bigfoot is blurry That's the problem It's not the photographer's fault Mitch Hedberg (Graphic c...

In my university days I T.A.'d for a professor whose insights would have an enduring effect on my understanding of the Path. (Shout-...

A few days ago I saw a humorous meme involving Ouija boards on a Facebook group for members of the church I grew up in. The fact that I ...

'Way back in March of 2012 CE (how strange to have such a deep vault) I reviewed Zen at War , Brian Daizen Victoria's exposé o...

Something I much appreciate about Zen is its clear-sightedness in the matter of human behaviour. Where other religions talk about sin –...

This is pure genius, but bear with me, because it won't seem like it just from the description. In Garfield Minus Garfield , Iris...

Greetings, honoured sangha. This week I offer Japanese for Zenners , with this basal concept: マインドフルネス 。 Can't read it? Let ...

Humanity: "If a tree falls in the forest, and no-one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" Rest of the Universe: ...

I've been a huge Dickens fanboy since a Christmas in high school when I decided to read his most famous story. You know, from an ...