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2022-05-15T16:36:24-07:00

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Some Hasty Notes on the Western Encounter with Buddhism & Specifically Zen in the West

Last updated on: May 15, 2022 at 4:36 pm By James Ford

Some Hasty Notes on the Western Encounter with Buddhism & Specifically Zen in the West (A gathering of newer and older reflections collected for a larger project, but something I thought possibly of use to others as it stands.) James Myoun Ford Buddhism is a missionary religion. It has a “good news” it wishes to share. Buddhism offers a profound analysis of human hurt, and from that, a path to healing our broken hearts. From its birthing... Read more

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2019-07-29T08:22:55-07:00

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Zen & Kensho: Or, What Happens After Dorothy Returns from Oz

Last updated on: July 29, 2019 at 8:22 am By James Ford

Last year, I believe it was, I gave a talk on the Ten Oxherding Pictures. It sparked a reflection. What follows is based in that reflection but marinaded a bit and with some deletions and additions. The talk was livecast on Facebook. And there were a few viewers who joined in during the question and answer session at the end. One person asked where I would place the kensho experience among the pictures? Certainly a fair question. In... Read more

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2019-07-28T08:30:47-07:00

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I find myself thinking of Margot Adler

Last updated on: July 28, 2019 at 8:30 am By James Ford

I find myself thinking of Margot Adler. She was born in Little Rock, on the 16th of April, 1946. Not much later the family relocated to New York City, and that would remain her base for the rest of her life. The family were “the” Adlers. Her grandfather the noted early associate of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, who later developed his own school, Individual psychology. Her father was also a noted psychiatrist. Adler earned her undergraduate degree at... Read more

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Drawing Down the Moon

Margot Adler

2019-07-25T17:01:22-07:00

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Six Markers of a Modernist Buddhism

Last updated on: July 25, 2019 at 5:01 pm By James Ford

Six Markers of a Modernist Buddhism James Myoun Ford Buddhisms, Ancient & Modern There I was, on Facebook, when I was pointed to an article that purported to compare “traditional” Buddhism with “secular” Buddhism. The author appeared to belong to a Traditionalist school of one sort or another, and, interestingly, to me, at least, is also a pretty far right person politically, identifying, it appears with the alt-right. This generated several trains of thought for me. One... Read more

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2019-07-23T14:56:37-07:00

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Zen: Revisiting an Early Book by Alan Watts

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 2:56 pm By James Ford

The very generous folk at New World Library have just gifted me with a copy of Zen: A Short Introduction With Illustrations by the Author. I guess its one of the perks that come when someone gets confused for a moment and thinks I might be an “Influencer” in the Zen Buddhist world. I was pleased to get it. My feelings about Alan Watts shift like the tides and currently my positive feelings are in full flood.... Read more

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Zen: A Short Introduction

2019-07-23T11:36:51-07:00

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Jah Rastafari: Marking the Birth of a Divine King

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 11:36 am By James Ford

Tafari Makonnen was born on this day, the 23rd of July, in 1892. In 1930 would assume the throne of Ethiopia as the Emperor Haile Selassie I. Through the vagaries of mysterious karma, and possibly at least in part to the royal family’s claim to be descendent from the biblical Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, he would find a lasting place in religions as a central figure in the Rastafarian movement. Mildly ironic, of course,... Read more

2019-07-21T09:04:13-07:00

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On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the first Human Walking on the Moon, A Zen Priest Reflects on Reaching for the Stars

Last updated on: July 21, 2019 at 9:04 am By James Ford

One of the interesting themes to my young life as a boomer was the background reality of the space race. Like most all children in the country I followed the space program avidly from the announcement of Sputnik when I was nine years old, to that moment sitting with friends and watching a snowy black and white television broadcasting Neil Armstrong’s first step onto the moon’s surface on the 20th of July, 1969. Fifty years ago. I continue... Read more

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2019-07-18T13:36:53-07:00

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Remembering Les Horribles Cernettes, who gave us the first picture on the world wide web

Last updated on: July 18, 2019 at 1:36 pm By James Ford

As it happens, it was today, the 18th of July, 1992 that the first picture was posted to the World Wide Web. The image was of Les Horribles Cernettes, Angela Higney, Michele de Gennaro, Colette Marx-Neilsen, and Lynn Veronneau. And here is the picture. The group was, according to Wikipedia, “an all-female parody pop group, self-labelled “the one and only High Energy Rock Band”, which was founded by employees of CERN and performed at CERN and other HEP-related... Read more

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2019-07-15T16:35:11-07:00

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To Catch a Thief: Retelling an Ancient Hindu Story

Last updated on: July 15, 2019 at 4:35 pm By James Ford

The story that forms this sermon is inspired by a tale recounted in Simons Roof’s Journeys on the Razor-Edged Path. From that place I try to outline the arc of a spiritual life. Read more

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2019-07-14T20:05:30-07:00

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Joseph Priestley, the Priestley Riots, and the Dawn of Modern Liberal Religion

Last updated on: July 14, 2019 at 8:05 pm By James Ford

Of course today is Bastille Day. And a tip of the hat to that revolution marked by the storming of the prison in 1789. It is also the anniversary of another uprising of sorts, a counter riot to the spirit of that revolution which also took place on the 14th of July, but two years later in England. It is commonly called the “Priestley Riots.” Joseph Priestley is much more than the patron saint... Read more

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