Rusty Ring

(Nootka rose [Rosa nutkana] heralds impending summer on the North Pacific Coast.)

"You cannot eat a recipe." Shunryu Suzuki, on the relative value of religious teaching. (Photo of the epilogue t...

(You find the Buddha in the strangest places here in the West. Exhibit A – this disembodied head. If that's not weird enoug...

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." This is one of Carl Sagan's most r...

(If you've been there, you know.)

6. Be quiet in body, mind and spirit. Don't hurry either in speaking or responding, distrustful of your own urgency. 7. Be firm...

(Another Buddhist thrift store find . This time it's a Thai frog rattle – essentially, a moktak-style percussion instrument with adde...