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September 2016

September 30, 2016

Some Zen Teachings According to Jesus

Jesus saw some babies nursing. He said to his disciples, “These nursing babies are like...

September 29, 2016

Bishop Akiba’s Dream: And Visions of Zen in North America

Bishop Gengo Akiba, head of the continental North American branch of the Japanese Soto Zen...

September 28, 2016

Shunryu Suzuki on Breathing

When we practice zazen (Zen meditation) our mind always follows our breathing. When we inhale,...

September 27, 2016

Went to See Hell or High Water. Liked it. Quite a bit.

When I was young my grandmother would tell me as someone raised in Missouri she...

September 26, 2016

The Beatles Take Their Walk Across Abbey Road, and Then, Well, Then An Era is Over

It was forty-seven years ago today that the Beatles released their eleventh album, Abbey Road....

September 25, 2016

The Very Short Sutra on the Meeting of the Buddha and the Goddess

Rick Fields was a poet, a journalist, and author of the first comprehensive history of...

September 24, 2016

Want to Know What the Way Looks Like? Here a Christian translates a Daoist Who Tells Us In a Little Story He Made Up

A Story by Chuang-tzu, translated by Thomas Merton & collected in Stephen Mitchell’s The Enlightened...

September 22, 2016

A Sufi Spills the Beans on What a Zen Koan Is

To be honest, just for a moment, just between the two of us: we really...

September 21, 2016

The Life of an Artist: Recalling John Wesley Hardrick

John Wesley Hardrick was born on this day in 1891. As early as eight he...

September 21, 2016

A Hobbit is Born, And the Middle Earth Will Never Be the Same

According to the good folk at Wikipedia, "In a 1955 letter to W. H. Auden,...

September 20, 2016

Two Glorious Old Codgers Debate the Existence of God

In 1948, incidentally the year of my birth, BBC radio hosted a debate on whether...

September 19, 2016

On Going to See Map Against the World

In the middle of the nineteenth century a geographer and cartographer, Kim Jeong-ho presented the...

September 18, 2016

GETTING TO KNOW YOU A Meditation on Spiritual Community

GETTING TO KNOW YOU A Meditation on Spiritual Community Mitra Rahnema & James Ishmael Ford...

September 17, 2016

A Feast for the Sibyl of the Rhine

The truth is more than one religion finds its source in what outsiders would call...

September 16, 2016

King of the Blues

Riley B. King was born near Itta Bena, in Mississippi on this day in 1925....

September 15, 2016

Saicho and the Beginnings of Japan’s Bodhisattva Ordination System

The Japanese monk Saicho was born on this day in 767. A signal figure in...

September 13, 2016

Eat Your Chocolate Proudly: A Smallest Meditation on International Chocolate Day

Milton Hershey was born on this day in 1857. And the National Confectioners Cartel, I...

September 12, 2016

Let Go or Be Dragged

Recently someone posted a meme that made its way to my Facebook page that proclaimed,...

September 11, 2016

My Lesson from Nine Eleven

On that 11th day of September 2001, just before the first tower fell, trapped on...

September 10, 2016

Happy Birthday, Mary Oliver! Oh. And. Thank You!

The American poet Mary Oliver was born on this day in 1935. For those of...

September 09, 2016

A Little on What Science Is, and With That a Tad on What Science Is Not

I was reading on Facebook a critique of the modernist Buddhist interpreter Stephen Batchelor's objections...

September 09, 2016

Recalling Constance & Her Companions & the Madam

Sister Constance, born Caroline Louise Darling in Medway, Massachusetts in 1846, joined Mother Harriet Starr...

September 08, 2016

Secrets of the Universe Revealed

Use it wisely...

September 08, 2016

A Feast for Mary

For many of my liturgically minded Christian friends, particularly Catholics of those various stripes I...

September 07, 2016

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: a Way of Life is a quite interesting film...

September 06, 2016

Reading Awake at the Bedside, Finding Life and Death Entangled Beautifully

What can I say? Even the Dalai Lama likes this book! And, absolutely, so do...

September 05, 2016

Ten Years of Monkey Mind: Reflections on a Blogging Life

I find it hard to believe. But, it was today in 2006 that I posted...

September 05, 2016

Recalling Filipino Unitarian Bishop Gregorio Aglipay

For the past several years I've been careful to mark out today, making sure folk...

September 04, 2016

A STORY OF EGYPT A Meditation on Labor Day, Black Lives Matter, & the Great Work of Our Lives

A STORY OF EGYPT A Meditation on Labor Day, Black Lives Matter, & the Great...

September 03, 2016

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who...