Rusty Ring

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. Be brave. – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Photo of young Iranians standing ...

I've been listening to a podcast about cults, the primary sin of which (as well as many so-called mainstream congregations, inclu...

Here's a brief rumination from an anonymous blogger about a topic I've raised here before: https://przxqgl.hybridelephant.c...

Though this seems at first glance avant-garde sculpture, in real life it's the famous one-legged torii of Nagasaki. You can fil...

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 chaplain j...

It's old now – 2012 – but still entirely germane. In a nutshell, Psychology Today author Alison Escalante's position is that ...

It just struck me that I've never posted on these before. Which is remarkable, since they're central to my practice, and indeed m...

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway (Photo of welded saw blades courte...

As I've mentioned in past years, August has by a series of dependent co-arising become Suicide Month here on Rusty Ring. Along ...

This week I'm deferring to Matthew Inman, the Seattle bodhisattva who stands against evil and pointless suffering under the nom de ...

I've purposely held off posting about Robin Williams until the tidal wave of pro forma anguish washed past and left us in a place of c...

A year ago this month the suicide of a former student prompted me to get real on polite society's fancy backside and name the actual ...

(See also Suicide: The Cure .) A former student of mine recently committed suicide. He was a truly exceptional young man, still in his c...