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2022-02-03T09:58:52-08:00

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No Greater Love

Last updated on: February 3, 2022 at 9:58 am By James Ford

A Zen teacher was once told he was going to hell. He said that was certainly fine by him. The person was taken aback, and asked, why? The teacher said so I can help. It was seventy-nine years ago, today, the 3rd of February, 1943. Methodist minister George Fox, Rabbi Alexander Goode, Reformed minister Clark Poling, and Catholic priest John Washington were aboard the troop ship SS Dorchester. They were all commissioned first lieutenants, they were all... Read more

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2022-02-01T20:29:18-08:00

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The Song of the Groundhog

Last updated on: February 1, 2022 at 8:29 pm By James Ford

Celebrate this unlikely oracle, this ball of fat and fur, whom we so mysteriously endow with the power to predict spring. Let’s hear it for the improbable heroes who, frightened at their own shadows, nonetheless unwittingly work miracles. Why shouldn’t we believe this peculiar rodent holds power over sun and seasons in his stubby paw? Who says that God is all grandeur and glory? Unnoticed in the earth, worms are busily, brainlessly, tilling the soil. Field mice,... Read more

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2023-02-01T06:54:14-08:00

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Recalling our Mother Saint Brigid

Last updated on: February 1, 2023 at 6:54 am By James Ford

Thus have I heard. Brigid was born in 451 in County Louth. Traditions say her mother, Brocca was a Christian Pict slave. Baptized, tradition says, by Patrick himself. Brigid was said to exhibit signs of holiness from early on, including giving away her father’s money and goods to the poor. She became a nun, and with seven companions are celebrated as the first nuns in Ireland. She was eventually given “abbatial powers,” authority similar to that of... Read more

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2024-02-01T10:41:01-08:00

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Marking the Birth of Thomas Merton

Last updated on: February 1, 2024 at 10:41 am By James Ford

Thomas Merton was born at Prades, France, on the 31st of January, in 1915. His father Owen was a New Zelander, his mother Ruth, an American. They’d met while each was studying art in Paris. Thomas was baptized into the Church of England. representing his father’s Anglican faith. With the onset of the First World War the family relocated to the States. His brother, John Paul was born shortly after. Their mother died when Merton was six.... Read more

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2022-01-31T06:45:59-08:00

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Finding Maps for the Spiritual Journey

Last updated on: January 31, 2022 at 6:45 am By James Ford

I’m currently working on a book describing the spiritual journey. What follows I just cut from that manuscript. But it still felt like it might be useful in another context. As we enter the way we can feel we’re crossing deserts moving toward an oasis with life-giving waters. Sometimes only to find a shimmering mirage on the horizon that quickly disappears as we approach. Grail. Oasis. Mirage. Deserts. If we’re honest we realize in matters... Read more

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2022-01-30T10:30:03-08:00

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The old Zen priest bows to the Old Zen monk. Incense rising.

Last updated on: January 30, 2022 at 10:30 am By James Ford

This morning I opened my social media and nearly immediately was gifted with a poem from the Zen priest and hermit Ryōkan Taigu. It was posted by Kuya Minogue. Kuya simply said “Ryokan describes my life.” With that she offered this verse from Ryokan’s Chinese poems. Looking back I see more than seventy years have already passed. I am tired of seeing through right and wrong in the human world Snow in the late night covers all traces of... Read more

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2022-01-29T11:37:43-08:00

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Intimations of Grief: A Zen Dharma Talk

Last updated on: January 29, 2022 at 11:37 am By James Ford

Intimations of Grief A dharma talk by Jan Seymour-Ford Delivered at the Empty Moon Zen Saturday Zazenkai 29 January, 2022 Zen means participating in loss. – we are present and don’t turn away from our loss and pain Zen doesn’t save us from our lives. I’m … anxious … angry, etc. The “I” is extra. So I’d like to talk about loss. I’ll start with a poem by Robert Frost. Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first... Read more

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2022-01-28T06:47:05-08:00

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Thinking of the Good and the Bad and What Might be Coming

Last updated on: January 28, 2022 at 6:47 am By James Ford

William Buttler Yeats died in Menton, France, on this day, the 28th of January in 1939. His body was interred in France and lay there for nearly a decade before his remains were removed to Ireland. In his lifetime Yeats was a poet, dramatist, prose writer, generally considered one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century. As a child Yeats was an indifferent student. Although his poetry began to be noticed from an early... Read more

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2022-01-27T08:45:49-08:00

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Lewis Carroll’s Derelict Canon of Zen Koans

Last updated on: January 27, 2022 at 8:45 am By James Ford

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born at the All Saints’ vicarage in Cheshire, England, today, the 27th of January, in 1832. His family produced military men and clerics. His great grandfather a bishop in the Church of England, his father a country priest, later Archdeacon of Richmond. The family were Anglo-Catholics. Charles’ early education was at home. He, like his siblings, apparently, suffered from a stammer. In 1846 he was shipped off to public school, and in... Read more

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2022-01-26T08:53:58-08:00

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The Zen Priest Dreams the Jesus Prayer

Last updated on: January 26, 2022 at 8:53 am By James Ford

DREAMING THE JESUS PRAYER James Ishmael Ford I find Jesus and the Jesus Prayer on my heart a fair amount of late. And only a little less, Mary, for me as the great Western manifestation of Guanyin. Which in the joining in my heart I guess speaks volumes of me and my life between. I even find myself appreciating the encapsulating story of normative Christianity, the creator God sending his only son down to the broken... Read more

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