Rusty Ring

"Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them." Dōgen

"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, because you might die tonight." Ajahn Brahm (Photo of rec...

"Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are." His Ho...

"Do not repay anyone evil for evil." Romans 12:17 – a tighter restatement of my own earlier effort . (Photo courtesy ...

Forget your perfect offering There's a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in Leonard Cohen, Zen hermit m...

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

"I don't seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old... rather, I seek the things they sought." Matsuo Bashō (Photo...

"You’re just another version of me. That’s why I can’t take you that seriously." Brad Warner (Bairei Kōno's ta...

"We mustn’t forget that today’s science and culture have only developed out of the lowest levels of consciousness." Sawaki K...

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

"Do not emulate others' wrongdoing. See to your own virtue." Dōgen (Photo courtesy of Jay Castor and Unsplash....

This month past brought Rusty Ring into its tenth year of publication, not counting the four-odd months that I sat ango . This ...

"If my Zen only works at the monastery or at the temple, my Zen sucks." Jay Rinsen Weik (Photo courtesy of Wikime...

"Zen is not found in the understanding, it's found in the doing of it." Gil Fronsdal (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Co...

"The greater part of what my neighbours call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely...

"I can't do X until I have Y." That's the fundamental delusion, according to Ian Martin. Essentially, he suggests,...

"When life gives you lemons, you are mistaken." Ummon (probably) (See the Blue Cliff Record, Case 6 , and the provocativ...

"The biggest ego-trip going is getting rid of your ego." Alan Watts (Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

"[Kitano] was thin and not in good health, but Shunryu was mesmerised by the way he would lay out his bowing cloth and lower hi...

"All you single people who think you'd be happy if you were married, ask a married person. "All you married people who th...