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2019-09-06T18:56:14-07:00

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Remembering Zen Master Issan Dorsey

Last updated on: September 6, 2019 at 6:56 pm By James Ford

I wrote this a couple of years ago. Noting how this is the 29th anniversary of Issan Dorsey’s death on the 6th of September, 1990, I think it worth sharing again. Tommy Dorsey, Jr, was born on the 7th of March, 1933, in Santa Barbara. The youngest of ten, he was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition. He dropped out of college and joined the Navy, only to be discharged when discovered in a relationship with... Read more

2019-09-07T13:26:22-07:00

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What If? Walking the Silk Road and finding a Luminous Religion

Last updated on: September 7, 2019 at 1:26 pm By James Ford

The “Luminous Religion,” a 7th-century Chinese branch of Christianity, incorporated elements of Buddhism & Daoism. Its “new” Christian texts, the Jesus Sutras, are innocent of original sin. Instead it fully embraced the loveliness of the world. And while celebrating the divine origins of their teacher, consistently emphasized his teachings as the truly important thing. They described the Luminous religion simply as a way of life. Read more

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2019-08-28T20:07:35-07:00

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The Poetry of Mysticism: Or, Mrs Underhill’s Foray into Universalist Mysticism

Last updated on: August 28, 2019 at 8:07 pm By James Ford

The Poetry of Mysticism: Or, Mrs Underhill’s Foray into Universalist Mysticism Evelyn Underhill (Being the second part of her Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s translation, with her assistance, of the poetry of Kabir, very slightly edited.) The poetry of mysticism might be defined on the one hand as a temperamental reaction to the vision of Reality: on the other, as a form of prophecy. As it is the special vocation of the mystical consciousness to mediate between two... Read more

2019-08-27T15:13:49-07:00

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Seventy-Five Years After the Liberation of Paris I Watched Is Paris Burning

Last updated on: August 27, 2019 at 3:13 pm By James Ford

As I write this it was seventy-five years and two days ago that Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation. I noted this anniversary on my Facebook page along with a link to a contemporary newsreel. A friend mentioned as a comment that if we had Amazon Prime, we might want to watch the 1966 movie Is Paris Burning. My answer was, I hope, in only a mildly smug note, that to the degree it relied upon the memoirs... Read more

2019-08-25T07:28:23-07:00

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Japan Meets Europe: Or, How Peixinhos da Horta Becomes Tempura

Last updated on: August 25, 2019 at 7:28 am By James Ford

It was today, the 25th of August, in 1542, or perhaps it was 1543, a Chinese ship heading to Macau was caught up in a terrible storm and swept into Japanese waters. While docked for repairs a handful of the ship’s passengers became the first Europeans documented as having stepped foot on Japanese soil. Portuguese traders and really at this distance they do deserve the title explorers Antonio Mota, Francisco Zeimoto, and Antonio Peixoto were designated “southern barbarians.”... Read more

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2019-08-24T15:00:43-07:00

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Want a Spiritual Practice? Memorize These Four Quotes

Last updated on: August 24, 2019 at 3:00 pm By James Ford

I recall in my youth being told how in ancient Rome when someone was given a “Triumph,” a parade through the city in honor of some major accomplishment a slave was assigned to stand right behind them in their chariot, whispering over and over, “You are a mortal.” Turns out this practice is not universally attested. But. It should have been their practice. If they were being smart. Change is the universal rule. What is up will... Read more

2023-02-26T16:49:59-08:00

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Show Me the Ink: A Reflection on Zen’s Inka Shomei

Last updated on: February 26, 2023 at 4:49 pm By James Ford

I am just back from Toledo where I had the honor of presiding at an Inka Shomei ceremony for my senior student, and now colleague, Jay Rinsen Weik. Then today I noticed on one of my Facebook pages the query, what is Inka Shomei for Zen communities in the West? I shared a brief reflection. And then decided I needed to expand it a bit. And well, here we are. The term Inka Shomei is one... Read more

2019-08-19T07:01:03-07:00

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A Temple to Love

Last updated on: August 19, 2019 at 7:01 am By James Ford

According to good old Wikipedia the oldest known temple devoted to the Roman deity Venus was established on this day, the 19th of August in 293 b.c.e. Venus is the goddess of love, beauty and fertility. And as many know these days her story and that of the Greek Aphrodite are now completely intertwined. Me, I am sympathetic to the syncretistic inclination among religions, and would throw in all goddesses of love, including all those other incarnations, especially... Read more

2021-02-18T09:39:11-08:00

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Enter Ramakrishna

Last updated on: February 18, 2021 at 9:39 am By James Ford

The Hindu saint Ramakrishna was born on this day, the 18th of February, in 1836. He looms large in my spiritual biography. My father was a ne’re-do-well, who kept our little family moving from one town to the next, frequently just ahead of the law. And, occasionally, not just ahead. The sole anchor of our chaotic lives was my maternal grandmother’s fundamentalist Baptist faith, which I clung to as a life-raft in my childhood. But, as I... Read more

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2019-08-14T16:16:12-07:00

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Without Keizan, We Probably Would Have No Idea There Was a Dogen

Last updated on: August 14, 2019 at 4:16 pm By James Ford

In Japan today, the 15th of August, is marked as a time to celebrate the life of the second founder of Soto Zen in that country, Keizan Jokin. Seems important to me. Keizan was born on the 13th of November, 1264 and died on the 22nd of September. His mother was a devote of Eihei Dogen, eventually establishing two convents, one of which she served as abbess. At the age of eight Keizan entered Eiheiji, the monastery Dogen... Read more

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