Rusty Ring

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

For some years I've enjoyed sporadic correspondence with a fellow Zenner in England. After a few less-than-uplifting experiences with...

Alan Watts once said, "Now I’m a grandfather, and so I am no longer in awe of grandfathers." If I liked this 20 years ago, wh...

"Most questions are the answer." Genjo Marinello Osho Choboji (Photo courtesy of Unsplash.com and a generous photogr...

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 ...

"The trouble with people is not that they don’t know, but that they know so much that ain’t so." Josh Billings (G...

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: ...

In Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War , Edward Stourton drops a bombshell. He's talking about how radio – the...

Sit down. Shut up. Pay attention. (Photo courtesy of Benjamin Balazs and Pixabay.com.)

Me at my station. Note how state-of-the-art it looks now that I've replaced all the knobs with rotary encoders. Last year, after ...

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...

"Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the centre of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Ear...

"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be an answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer." Gertr...

This week a Zen droogie slipped me The Philosophy Force Five vs the Scientismists , a terrific graphic essay by Existential Comics. In th...

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...

"In Buddhism there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water...

An aspect of Meditation in the Wild (Rusty Ring review here ) that I greatly appreciated was author Charles S. Fisher's relentless...

We're hearing a lot these days about patriotism and national greatness and ideological purity and economic theory and cold dead fing...

"A point of view is merely one degree out of the three hundred and sixty degrees of a circle; each point of view can see from tha...