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December 2008

December 16, 2008

How and Why You Should Be Circumspect about Your Inner Life

Try notto look like you're on a path to somewhere.That waynobody will ask youwhere you are...

December 15, 2008

Bob Dylan : Highlands (live 1999)

December 15, 2008

Form is Form

Windows were shakin’All night in my dreamEverything was exactlyThe way that it seemed.- Bob Dylan,...

December 13, 2008

Fire Boy Comments: What is the Self?

This post continues working with the fire boy koan that’s been hot these past several...

December 10, 2008

Fire Boy Seeks Fire

This post continues the thread from the previous post with a reflection on the fire...

December 09, 2008

Fire Boy Seeks Fire

My twelve-year old son, dog Bodhi, and I just got back from sledding at the...

December 08, 2008

The Sun in Drag

Here's a poem by Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky in The Gift: Poems by Hafiz...

December 08, 2008

Dogen's Extensive Record #297: Enlightenment Day Dharma Hall Discourse (1248)The snowball hits! The snowball hits!...

December 07, 2008

Buddha’s Enlightenment

Excerpt from Case 1, Record of Transmission of Lightby Keizan Jokin-zenji Shakyamuni Buddha saw the morning...

December 06, 2008

Todd Snider – Can’t Complain

little out of place, a little out of tune, sorta lost in space racin'...

December 06, 2008

More Still on Flowers and Weeds

By the way, I've been updating somethings over on the right sidebar, especially the offerings...

December 05, 2008

Katagiri’s Persimmon

Katagiri Roshi liked persimmons but may have enjoyed the persimmon most as a metaphor for...

December 03, 2008

With Begging Bowl In Hand

(A Zen monk doing Takuhatsu - begging) As the year draws to a close, I've...

December 02, 2008

Visions of Awakening

Taigen Leighton's book, Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dogen and the Lotus Sutra, is now...

December 01, 2008

Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris – Goodbye

now. Get your tissues ready. This one is so sweet. Seems like a good...

December 01, 2008

November 2008

November 30, 2008

That Wonderful Tail

This morning in the woods I caught Bodhi's tail in a shot unexpectedly and thought...

November 29, 2008

Flowers Fall, Weeds Grow

Though this is so, flowers fall when we cling to them and weeds grow when...

November 28, 2008

Marriage and the Swirl of Sameness and Difference

Question: What is your opinion on marriage? Is it attachment itself? And, is that a...

November 27, 2008

Repose

Here's a little excerpt from a talk by Katagiri Roshi:Even though you have a custom...

November 27, 2008

The Stuart Davis Show – Episode 6

: This video clip contains considerable profanity and sexually explicit material. Thank you for zipping...

November 26, 2008

John Lee Hooker – It Serves Me Right to Suffer

November 25, 2008

Straight Up From Dogen’s Extensive Record

179. Dharma Discourse[Dogen] said: The World-Honored One said, “When one person opens up reality and returns...

November 25, 2008

Bob Dylan – Most of the Time (FULL VERSION)

November 23, 2008

The Moon in a Drop of Water

Question: I read this in a book by Wolinsky. What if so-called trauma is ongoing...

November 22, 2008

Pancho and Lefty by Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan

for something completely different - a Great old Townes Van Zandt song.

November 21, 2008

Leaping

Above is our doggie Bodhi doing some leaping through the field. And below is a...

November 21, 2008

Zazen: Basic Shapes

Here are some more questions about zazen that come from comments to the last post....

November 19, 2008

What Are You Thinking There In Zazen?

Another good zazen question from the e-mail box:Does this bit of Fukanzazengi seem to you to emphasize...

November 19, 2008

Katagiri Roshi On Transforming Through Play

Here's the excerpt from a talk by Katagiri Roshi that inspired the name for our...