Rusty Ring

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

Three weeks ago I wrote about the tendency in Western Zen to downplay the ongoing role of Korea in the development and direction of o...

(Baseballs at my old high school, abandoned in the batting cage two months ago and left where they lay.)

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

(A determined band of them, growing next to a railway in the middle of nowhere, for no clear reason.)

Among the more dubious traditions of Western Zen is a particularly frustrating custom we might sum up as "crap on Korea". ...