Rusty Ring

I practice the religion that suits me. The one that says I'm right and you're wrong. That I'm the ideal, and you the ...

Enlightenment is the stated goal of Buddhism, possibly the only doctrine all denominations share, though variously defined. As ...

I'd been a hermit monk for 5 years when I heard on my truck radio that after the news the host would speak with a US Army chap...

This video is both brief and necessary. We live in apocalyptic times. We're not the first; there have been many other apocalypti...

I'm just catching up with David Hayward, a cartoonist who has published under the provocative nom de guerre of The Naked P...

I've been rereading The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching , the succinct little Thich Nhat Hanh book that amounts, so far as 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...

We're catching a lot of reality these days. First a plague swept the planet, laying waste to technocratic pretentions of invuln...

Events this week have me thinking about my favourite Zen teaching story. (I say that about all of them, though my very favourites a...

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got came from my dad. I was in high school, and on the horns of some dilemma. For some reason,...

I'm not much of a rock. As a Zenner I aspire to be unmovable. Fudo Myō-ō , the patron of my practice, has made a career of i...

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

As a writer on Zen practice, and more generally on ending suffering, I often need to express the concept of not-being-a-hypocrite. ...