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2019-09-16T18:35:55-07:00
Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.
The Day Harriet Tubman, the Woman Called Moses, Escaped to Freedom
Last updated on: September 16, 2019 at 6:35 pm By James Ford
Araminta Ross was born a slave somewhere around 1820 in Maryland. One of vastly too many. Her life was brutal. At one time when one of her owners threw a heavy weight at another slave while she tried to intervene, she was accidentally hit. She would suffer spells of dizziness and pain for the rest of her life. While it was illegal she married John Tubman, a free man in 1844, taking his family name. She also... Read more
2019-09-16T08:27:47-07:00
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Karen Horney & the Zen Buddhist Encounter With Western Psychology
Last updated on: September 16, 2019 at 8:27 am By James Ford
Last year I noticed that today, the 16th of September, 1885, was the birthday of the noted Neo-Freudian psychoanalyst Karen Horney. I riffed a bit on her and her connections to Zen Buddhism, and how significant it was. I looked and thought I’d like to tweak it slightly, and share that here. Horney was one of a relatively small band of psychoanalysts and psychologists who would take their original inspiration and often direct instruction from Sigmund Freud and then... Read more
2019-09-15T08:09:21-07:00
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When I Think of Saints I think of James Chisholm
Last updated on: September 15, 2019 at 8:09 am By James Ford
There are lots of different reasons people are called saints. Some die witnesses for their faith. They’re called saints in lots of official calendars. Others live lives of extreme privation as examples. There are a number of them in those lists. Others just claim it for themselves and their co-religionists. But, for me, there is a particular kind of person I think of as worthy of the title. Early in the Nineteenth century, New England native James Chisholm... Read more
2019-09-14T14:10:15-07:00
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A Few Words on Zen Practice
Last updated on: September 14, 2019 at 2:10 pm By James Ford
“When we begin to practice, I think our concepts and notions of enlightenment are formed by what drives us to practice. Some of us believe we’re special, or we want to be special. Some of us want to be free of suffering. Some of us want life to make sense. I think these notions fall away as the practice works on us.” Jan Seymour-Ford Read more
2019-09-11T07:58:56-07:00
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Take Care of the Children, A 9/11 Meditation
Last updated on: September 11, 2019 at 7:58 am By James Ford
The Sunday that followed 9/11 I was expected to preach. Casting about to find something that might be a word of hope I listened to stories. One in particular captured my heart. Now, years have passed and we’ve found ourselves mired in recriminations, and blame placing. Wars followed. Endless wars. Some of this cascade of violence called for out of the act, some of it merely excused by the events of 9/11. And, this has been noticed and commented... Read more
2019-09-10T10:36:18-07:00
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Letting Go: A Small Zen Meditation
Last updated on: September 10, 2019 at 10:36 am By James Ford
I find myself thinking of the late popular science writer Stephen Jay Gould. Today, the 10th of September, he would have turned seventy-eight. If he’d not died in 2002. A while back when preparing for a talk I became obsessed with finding a half remembered citation from him. However, after decades of acquisitions as Jan & I knew we were going to be retiring and as part of that moving from a house to a condo that... Read more
2019-09-09T13:21:19-07:00
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Thirteen Years of Monkey Mind: Status Report
Last updated on: September 9, 2019 at 1:21 pm By James Ford
In 2006, as I was getting ready to take off on my first (and it would turn out to be only) sabbatical I was advised by an elder colleague that it would be wise to keep in touch with the gang back home. You know, the people who are paying me to do this, most of whom will never get one of their own in their lives. Another, younger colleague suggested trying a blog. “You like to write,”... Read more
2019-09-08T15:26:33-07:00
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Theodore Parker, the Moral Arc of the Universe, And a Spirituality for Our Times
Last updated on: September 8, 2019 at 3:26 pm By James Ford
While this was preached for the UU church in Anaheim, California, it speaks to a larger spirituality I believe can justly be claimed by many beyond the small circle that is the Unitarian Universalist world. This “liberal religion” that is more than any one denomination, genuinely is a contender to be the American religion, although it has up until this point lagged behind the two others, New Thought and Mormonism. For those concerned about the splotches on my... Read more
2019-09-07T14:10:56-07:00
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They Say If You Understand the Sound of the Single Hand, You Become Buddha. How Do You Become Buddha?
Last updated on: September 7, 2019 at 2:10 pm By James Ford
Wherein the Zen teacher James Myoun Ford picks at a koan, wanders around, gets confused about who founded Calvinism, has a musical interlude, and finally brings it all home. Read more
2019-09-06T19:09:24-07:00
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Better than Fiction: Or, When a Surrealist Poet was Accused of Stealing the Mona Lisa
Last updated on: September 6, 2019 at 7:09 pm By James Ford
It was on this day, the 7th of September, in 1911 that Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested under suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa. A classic example of the dangers of being an ironist in literalist times. Apollinaire was a renowned critic, poet, pornographer and the man who coined the term “surrealism” as well as “cubism.” He would come to be considered one of the signal Western literary figures of the early twentieth century. One could see why he would fall under... Read more
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