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May 2009

May 31, 2009

The Single Rail of Great Practice

When you reach this point of "no stink of enlightenment" where there is no trace,...

May 29, 2009

Genjokoan 11: Shaking Off Enlightenment

We're moving into the last couple weeks of the 100 days. By the way, I'm...

May 27, 2009

What Happens After Death?

My interest in this question resurfaced during my holiday re-reading of Mark Rowe's article, "Where...

May 26, 2009

When There is Nothing To Do: A Short and Very Partial Travelogue

We enjoyed Memorial Day Weekend at one of our favorite places - the North Shore...

May 22, 2009

Genjokoan 10: When There is Nothing To Do

The first water lily leaves are showing themselves on Bald Eagle Lake. The leaves are...

May 21, 2009

Knowing Without Touching

I've got a couple things for you today. First, a lovely, evocative poem from today's...

May 19, 2009

Living Up to Our Insights

This week we're looking at "forgetting the self" and I've asked the people in the...

May 17, 2009

Genjokoan 9: To Forget the Self

Struck by lightening, burned, split apart, holes pecked through and yet this tree keeps growing....

May 15, 2009

Don’t Poke Your Head Into Zen

The next Genjokoan post will move from "studying the self" and "the nose inadvertently in...

May 14, 2009

The Self Studying Itself and Shut Your Mouth Too

Above is the crab apple tree in the Yugeji front yard, blooming so fully and...

May 12, 2009

Fishing for the Self

From Stuart Davis to Bokusan to Bob Dylan (some say he's got the blood of...

May 11, 2009

What Witness?

May 10, 2009

A Year of Blogging

Today is the first anniversary of putting up this blog. I started it just to...

May 08, 2009

Genjokoan 8: Inadvertently Nosing Around the Self

First a clarification about how people in different cultures construct the self. Except for the...

May 07, 2009

Is It Okay For Zen Practitioners To Have Emotions?

This might seem like a silly question but the recent discussion of the experiences of...

May 05, 2009

The Self as the Truth Unfolding

I've just come in from working in the garden, cleaning the perimeter and pruning the...

May 03, 2009

Genjokoan 7: Blue Birds, the Moon, Unitarians and the Self

Just back from a Sunday visit to the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church ("let's do...

May 02, 2009

Not Unlike a Bridge: An Announcement for Former Students

I've had a full week with with my 53rd birthday and a local-Zen-people meeting. In...

April 2009

April 29, 2009

The Road of Reconstruction

The intimate verification of "no eyes, no ears, no road" is essential or Zen is...

April 27, 2009

Never Be Drifted in the Ocean of Human Life

Today I've got an excerpt from a talk by Katagiri Roshi that GS transcribed recently...

April 26, 2009

Enlightenment Therapy: The Limits of Deconstruction (PS Zen Might Not Save You Completely)

Here's an interesting article (thanks to Barry for pointing it out) about Zen and psychotherapy...

April 25, 2009

Genjokoan 6: Intimate Knowing

Above is Yugeji practitioner Shodo and dog Bodhi. Which is the original face? What is...

April 24, 2009

Not Leaning on Each Other

The photo is another from Glynn at Empty Hand - thanks - I think I've...

April 22, 2009

The Mysterious (sometimes elusive) Decision Point

Something came up in my life recently that seemed important and that required a decision one way...

April 21, 2009

Early Spring Outback

April 20, 2009

Traces of Insight

The above photo (thanks to Barbara for suggestions and Buddhafrog for fixing this!) just in...

April 17, 2009

The View From Where I Sit

We'll be in sesshin, gathering the heart, this weekend at Wild Fox Zen Transforming Through...

April 15, 2009

Dungshan Flips the Bird

I've continued to enjoy browsing for perspectives on the path of the bird. William Powell...

April 14, 2009

Not Attaching to the Bird’s Path and Extending Our Hands

Here’s something I discovered while poking around for Dungshan’s teaching on the path of the...

April 13, 2009