Rusty Ring

Let us walk alone together, comrade sojourner. We will be like pebbles in a bag, polishing each other bright. (Ship's dogs...

"The entire evolution of science would suggest that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of ...

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

They warn you not to meet your heroes, to leave them unknown quantities, to avoid disappointment. But have you considered this: ...

"It's not that the wind is blowing. It's what the wind is blowing." My friend Brent. [Who informs me now that he ...

'Way back in 1973, Paul Simon released a song called One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor . The lyrics are classic Pa...

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

« L'être humain va toujours chercher l'horizon . C'est d'ailleurs à cause de sa conscience et son intelligence que l...

winter rain time to unseal the new tea Issa (Photo courtesy of Unsplash.com and a generous photographer .)

"The flower and the wind are old friends." Bill Porter (Red Pine) (Photo courtesy of Nico Westerhof and Wikimedia Comm...

One day Nasrudin was walking down a country road when he saw a group of horsemen riding toward him at great speed. Fearing bandits,...

« Ce qu'il faut de saleté pour faire une fleur! » Félix Leclerc (English translation here .) (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons...

(Brought to you by decades of wind and salt in a marine environment.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(I was sitting at the table one late afternoon when I spied what looked like a wisp of smoke rising in the living room. Upon inspec...

I was difficult when I was younger. Part of me would like to go back and face some of those challenges and circumstances again, ex...

Cracked.com's Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) uploaded a particularly cogent article this week. His general topic is why the leve...

Some years ago I heard a story from the Bhagavad-Gita, in which a great warrior is called to battle, only to find himself facing his m...

My sister recently sent me a link to Morgan Mitchell's The 'Tyranny' Of Positive Thinking Can Threaten Your Health And Happi...

As you get older, you call every change in your views and attitudes an improvement. But it only is if it is; change can be growth or deca...

(For an overview of solitary sesshin, see Part I . For meal planning tips, see Part III .) Planning is the difference between a sust...