Zen and the Vultures of Anxiety

Not enough is said, at least in the Buddhist blogosphere, at least as far as I can perceive, about the role of relaxation in Zen practice.

It's a very important part of a practice that is life itself.


I'll be having more to say about it in the very near future.

New Post on Zen & the Martial Arts Coming...

I recently came across a few corners of the internet's martial arts areas...and hoo boy do they kind of not get certain things related to martial arts. It's not quite like they're the  コブラ会 ("Cobra Kai" - I wonder if it was ever written that way before...) or something like that ...but they really don't get the premises of 功夫.

Off on business...but a couple of pending ideas...

I'm off to Korea on business, and don't know when I'll get to post or how much in the next week or two, but I thought I might point out a couple of ideas in embryonic stage right now:

1. I saw on Algernon's blog a post on pink slime and vegetarianism. As a non-vegetarian, as a person who is fascinated by blurring borders and deconstruction of categories (including that of life and death), I have some points with which to respond in this on-going conversation.

2. Regarding blurring boundaries of life and death, awareness and non-awareness, I've a bit more to say about the Internet of Things and universal awareness.  Mainly though, it's that the design of the Internet of Things must be done without regard for the metaphysical.  Sorry folks, but we see through a glass darkly as one guy wrote, but we engineers must design towards the sensible and observable and measurable. 

I'll be back.

Class and Buddhism - it's coming

But need a bit more time...

Somewhat re-charged blogging batteries...

Maybe it was going to the Portland Buddhist festival that did it. Yeah, that was likely it. Anyway, there I found out that there's actually a Nichiren sangha in Vancouver WA. (They're the folks who aren't Sōka Gakkai.)

Anyway, I'm going to be soon posting on how class, and its relative distribution of labor in class, has resulted, in various ways, in the "zenification" or, to put it somewhat differently yet equivalently in another sense, the "kungfuification" of socieities.

I think, in my view, the pudgy guy making a fortune running Shaolin-si might not come off as bad as Genpo Roshi.