Rusty Ring

Could they be sutras? In the temple well frogs chant Kansetsu (POV photo of well courtesy of Gary Meulemans and Unsplash.com.)

This morning a brother in my Twitter sangha posted the following five paragraphs from the Pali canon ( Dutiyaassutavāsutta, SN 12.62 ). ...

( Update, 13 October 2025: The YouTube file I originally embedded here has gone 404, but I found this one to replace it. Though I have...

If you think a horned rabbit exists, then you know nothing. For there is no such thing. And if you don't think a horned rabbit exi...

Recently stumbled over this in the course of a Zen surf: Smokey Bear Sutra It's Gary Snyder's 1969 bid to raise Smokey Bear ...

Ānāpānasmṛti – zazen , more or less – was the practice the Buddha's own instructor taught. It's a fairly mutinous, fundamentalis...

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

Here's another burst of insight from that cagey lot down at Monty Python. This time they put humanity in context with a song draw...

1. All religions are different. Even a cursory survey shows they're the same. 2. All religions are the same. What, are you...

Recently heard on Bhante Sujato's Dhammanet podcast (available from the website and the usual aggregators): "A man found a...

"Lion’s Roar Has Killed Buddhism" , screams a recent headline on Brad Warner's Hardcore Zen blog. Um… そうですね。 Don...

(For an overview of solitary sesshin, see Part I . For meal planning tips, see Part III .) Planning is the difference between a sust...

"In the morning, I take my bowl and robe and go into the village to beg for food. "After my meal, I go into the woods, and g...

I made this fistful of fudos for a friend's daughter who just graduated from high school. Graduation is an odd rite; we tell young p...

This is a long post. It needs to be. If you're a Buddhist, or just a fan of the Buddha, please read patiently; the topic is of importa...

" Arhats , who have reached their last birth and think they are done with it all, are unable to raise their thoughts to supreme enl...

(Twelve-strand kongo Diamond Sutra model.)