Rusty Ring

(This 20-odd year apple met its end last week, a victim of its own success. In the late 20th century, varieties such as these, bearing he...

Long ago, in the first years of my Zen practice, I encountered a teaching that's remained in my mind through the intervening year...

This is a July post – meaning it has little immediate relevance to Zen or hermit practice – but Tom has made it clear on his website th...

I talk a lot about gratitude on this channel. It's a habit that has two not-very-subtle origins: 1. Gratitude is the wheel of mo...

So I'm reading Adam Savage 's Every Tool's a Hammer , an elaborated meditation on "making", that thing that mak...

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...

Pictured: not the Buddha. Ask a random Westerner to describe the Buddha, and you're likely to hear something about a "big fat...

Once, when I was in Grade 2, my teacher had all of us save our milk carton from lunch. Afterward we folded it into a flower pot, filled i...

Try this: Name the virtue that's the basis of all human morality. And now this: Which fundamental virtue is seldom disc...