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Every day is a Good Day: A Thanksgiving Zen Koan

Last updated on: November 26, 2025 at 3:29 pm By James Ford

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I try to offer a few words on our American Thanksgiving from a Zen Buddhist perspective when the holiday rolls around. What follows is that, tweaked, and then tweaked again. Eventually, I hope, I’ll get this mess right. After all, every day is a good day… Our first American Thanksgiving was proclaimed by George Washington on the 26th of November, 1789. It might be worth noting it was not connected to the Pilgrim story. Washington called out for a day... Read more

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2025-11-21T08:06:06-08:00

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Considering some Spiritual Roots of the American Experiment

Last updated on: November 21, 2025 at 8:06 am By James Ford

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…  In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-written, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc. Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the... Read more

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2025-11-17T16:28:56-08:00

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A Feast for Alan Watts: Spiritual Entertainer and much More

Last updated on: November 17, 2025 at 4:28 pm By James Ford

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Alan Watts died on the 16th of November in 1973. If I have my math right, that’s fifty-two years now. And even now, for many reasons, some good, some less so, he continues to be a presence at that edge of North American spirituality where what has long been called East and West meet. This is meaningful for me. Alan Watts had a significant place in the earlier years of my spiritual life, and even today remains, if not so... Read more

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2025-10-24T12:33:29-07:00

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Recalling the Astonishing Alexandra David-Neel

Last updated on: October 24, 2025 at 12:33 pm By James Ford

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Alexandra David-Need is one of the singular figures at the dawn of European Buddhism. All of us of my generation, whatever school of the great way we embrace, if we were raised in the West and came to the dharma as adults, her fingerprints are all over what we encountered. I would add, for ill as well as for good. But, I also believe, genuinely, most of all for the good. So, the story… Louise Eugenie Alexandrien Marie David was... Read more

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2025-10-23T08:32:43-07:00

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Jack Kerouac and the Dawn of Convert Buddhism in the West

Last updated on: October 23, 2025 at 8:32 am By James Ford

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It was the 21st of October, 1969, Jean Louis Kerouac, or maybe it was Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac; whatever, the person we know as Jack Kerouac died in St Petersburg, Florida. The day before Jack was drinking whiskey and malt liquor while working on a book. He felt a wave of nausea and then began to vomit blood. He was experiencing an esophageal hemorage, and despite several transfusions, his liver was damaged beyond repair from his lifetime of hard drinking.... Read more

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2025-10-13T07:31:11-07:00

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Recalling D. T. Suzuki & his Zen Buddhism

Last updated on: October 13, 2025 at 7:31 am By James Ford

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D. T. Suzuki was born on the 18th of October, 1870. Teitaro was his given name, while Daisetsu, his dharma name, given to him by his teacher Soen (sometime Soyen) Shaku. Most often all of it shortened to, D. T. Suzuki. D. T. Suzuki was born on the 18th of October, 1870. (The Wikipedia bio mistakenly lists his birthday as a month later) He was 95 when he died on the 12th of July, in 1966, He widely celebrated for... Read more

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A Zen appreciation of Teresa of Avila

Last updated on: October 13, 2025 at 7:50 am By James Ford

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Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda y Ahumada died in a moment when time ceased to be. It was in 1582 exactly as the Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian. And with it ten days vanished, the 5th through the 15th. In this negative time, so did Teresa. We know her as Teresa of Avila. The Churches of the West celebrate the 15th of October as a feast in her honor. She is one of only four women to be named... Read more

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The Gods of Small Things: A Zen Meditation

Last updated on: October 7, 2025 at 1:53 pm By James Ford

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Edward Sanshin Oberholtzer Roshi offered this reflection at our Empty Moon Zen half day Zen sit on Saturday, the 4th of October, 2025. With his generous permission I offer this reprint hoping to find the larger audience this talk deserves… There is a lot to be said for Iceland. It is, as an example, considered one of the happiest nations on earth. It enjoys an enviably high level of gender equality. The volcano that Arne Saknussemm went down to journey... Read more

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Yogi Chen & Chinese Vajrayana: A Personal Account

Last updated on: September 21, 2025 at 7:06 am By James Ford

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My friend Ken Ireland wrote this memoir of his encounters with the Chinese Vajrayana teacher C. M. Chen, best known perhaps, as Yogi Chen, for his Buddha, S.J. blog. I thought it worth wider distribution, and with his kind permission, I offer it here at Monkey Mind. When Father Bob Ochs and I lived together on Hillegass Avenue, we both began serious conversations with Buddhists — conversations with the intense inquiry that Jesuits are well known for. In the Spring... Read more

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Hildegard as a Pan-Spiritual Saint

Last updated on: September 17, 2025 at 1:54 pm By James Ford

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Hildegard of Bingen died on the 17th of September in 1179. She is one of those people I think of as pan-spiritual saints. And I try to note her feast as it rolls by annually. As far as I’m concerned the 17th of September is observed as a feats for one of most interesting and complex individuals in the annals of Christian mysticism. Itself a complex subject. The mystical life is often mixed up. In any number of ways. Hildegard... Read more

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