Rusty Ring

After a recent very pleasant afternoon spent in the companionship of a beloved sangha-mate, I've fallen to contemplating the bl...

It's the old-man grump of my generation. Our fathers grumped that they had to walk to school, or work for our grandfathers, or fight ...

"I don't permit the suffering - you do." God . (Photo of Guantanamo, by sculptor José Antonio Elvira, courtesy of...

Some time ago I had the good fortune to spend a month in Guatemala. While in the ancient capital I visited the tomb of Hermano Pedro ...

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

I was leafing through the Seattle Daily Times for 26 November 1963 when I happened upon a fascinating crumb of history. Readers of a c...

I was about nine when my dad took me to visit a friend who was building a large wooden steamboat. It was all framed in, and really impress...

Thoreau's cabin at Walden My decision to live in a tiny tent during my 100 Days on the Mountain , rather than more comfortable ...

But the good news is I did change my heart. It just took a while to generate the will. And that's my right. I also get better at this s...