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2023-04-17T08:38:03-07:00

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Sri Nisargadatta’s Zen Hinduism

Last updated on: April 17, 2023 at 8:38 am By James Ford

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Sri Nisargadatta’s Zen Hinduism James Ishmael Ford Sri Nisargadatta is arguably the Zen community’s favorite Hindu. At the veryt least we sure like to quote Nisargadatta. As an example, I was reading a book on the practice of Jhanas, pretty inside Buddhist baseball. And there it was. A book on Buddhism quoting the Hindu teacher. Reality is not the result of a process; it is an explosion. It is definitely beyond the mind, but... Read more

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2023-04-16T09:00:54-07:00

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Some Zen Words for End Times

Last updated on: April 16, 2023 at 9:00 am By James Ford

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Some Zen Words for End Times James Ishmael Ford Today, the 21st day of the first month of the third season, in the 23rd year of Thutmose III’s reign, or as we may prefer to put it, the 16th of April, in the year 1457 before our common era (okay unless it was 1482 or 1479 BCE), marks the anniversary of the oldest battle recorded with anything resembling reliable detail. It was a fight between Egyptians led by the... Read more

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2023-04-12T16:58:59-07:00

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The Sikh Tradition: A Small Celebration

Last updated on: April 12, 2023 at 4:58 pm By James Ford

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The Sikh Tradition A Small Celebration James Ishmael Ford There is one god, named truth, the creator, without fear, without hate, timeless in form, beyond birth, self-existent, (known by) the grace of the Guru. It was today, the 13th of April, in 1699 that the Guru Gobind Singh created a formal initiation into the community of Sikh believers, the Khalsa. The tradition’s founder was the Guru Nanak. Nanak was born in 1469 into a Hindu family... Read more

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2023-04-13T09:46:19-07:00

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The Unity of Religions

Last updated on: April 13, 2023 at 9:46 am By James Ford

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The Unity of Religions James Ishmael Ford “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickinson For anyone who says there are common currents to religions, say, like for me; there are challenges. Hard questions. Is there really a thread through them all, a tie that binds, some universal truth found in all religions? Just looking at the various creeds and the rites of the religions, it seems the answer would be no. No. And... Read more

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History and Religion

2023-04-11T08:37:11-07:00

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Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver: Reflecting on the making of an audiobook

Last updated on: April 11, 2023 at 8:37 am By James Ford

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Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver Reflecting on the making of an audiobook James Ishmael Ford Just shy of a year ago I received an email. Helena de Groot was, okay, is a producer for Pushkin, a multi platform publisher. She said they’d stumbled upon my allusions to Mary Oliver at my blog, which included one full on appreciation. Helena went on... Read more

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2023-04-09T14:17:09-07:00

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DYING & RISING: A Zen Reflection on Easter

Last updated on: April 9, 2023 at 2:17 pm By James Ford

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DYING & RISING A Zen Reflection on Easter James Ishmael Ford For the last half of my professional ministerial life, I served in some venerable New England parishes. Spiritually we were pretty much generic contemporary Unitarian Universalists. That is, we shared a naturalist and humanist bent. And issues of social justice were very important to us. But at the same time, there was always a bit of a Protestant Congregational Christian sense... Read more

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2023-04-06T17:43:18-07:00

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Every Day is the Good Day: A Zen Meditation on Good Friday

Last updated on: April 6, 2023 at 5:43 pm By James Ford

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Every Day is the Good Day: A Zen Meditation on Good Friday James Ishmael Ford Yunmen, asked, “I do not ask you about the fifteenth of month. Come. Tell me about after the fifteenth. He then gave his own response, “Every day is a good day.” Blue Cliff Record, Case 6 Today is Good Friday. And I find it a perfect day to consider a koan. Koans are not puzzles, although they look like them. Rather... Read more

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2023-04-06T08:51:04-07:00

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Zen, Maundy Thursday, and the Mysteries of Memory and Communion

Last updated on: April 6, 2023 at 8:51 am By James Ford

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Zen, Maundy Thursday, and the Mysteries of Memory and Communion James Ishmael Ford There are three rituals associated with Jesus’ ministry. The first is baptism, which he continued from his teacher, John’s ministry. The other two are foot washing and communion. These last two are marked out for observing today, Holy Thursday, or in some communities as Maundy Thursday. I don’t know why one, foot washing, remained in most of the Christian community an occasional act, while the other, communion... Read more

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2023-04-02T12:41:45-07:00

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How to Prepare and Deliver a (Zen) Dharma Talk

Last updated on: April 2, 2023 at 12:41 pm By James Ford

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HOW TO PREPARE AND DELIVER A (ZEN) DHARMA TALK James Ishmael Ford “So the hymn comes to a close with an unsteady amen, and the organist gestures the choir to sit down. Fresh from breakfast with his wife and children and a quick run through of the Sunday papers, the preacher climbs the steps to the pulpit with his sermon in hand. He hikes his black robe at... Read more

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2023-04-02T16:30:55-07:00

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NOT KILLING: A Consideration of Zen’s First Grave Precept

Last updated on: April 2, 2023 at 4:30 pm By James Ford

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NOT KILLING A Consideration of Zen’s First Grave Precept James Ishmael Ford Death and with it, killing is a great conundrum. Half of the conundrum of life and death. The fact of it. And how we engage it. Even, actually, how we think about it. One of the axioms of our Zen way is that everything, including our inner states have consequences. So, going for the hard thing, going toward the heart of the matter, what about death and especially... Read more

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