Notes in Samsara

 A relative recently indirectly criticized my stance on undocumented migrants and sanctuary cities by writing "there are some people on...

 

 Last October, I had the opportunity to visit 頭陀寺 - which means "itinerant monk temple"  in Wenzhou, China, on the occasion of the...

 I'm not one on being too sectarian,  and I don't like bashing other schools at all, but this piece from Dosho Port explains a lot ...

 I was thinking about this tweet .  I was thinking about the author's lack of self-awareness. Here's a good thought exercise I thoug...

 I'm tempted to write several pages on this topic alone, but in response to those (OK 1 or 2 or a few) that decry the fact that white co...

 The Buddhist blogosphere is largely moribund these days, which I guess gives me a space more or less that isn't that crowded... Someone...

  I once asked my teacher how we can maintain practice when disputes and disagreements inevitably arise. He said that a newborn baby has no ...

  This video: deals with how Russell Brand's content (and espoused political leanings) changed as a function of the number of hits he go...

 Given recent events, it seems that I need to say something. You know what they say, "See something, say something."

 A few years ago, my Zen teacher went back to Japan mostly because he was asked to be the teacher of another temple in Honshu,  in addition ...

 A friend, with whom I'd been drifting away from, over 20 years, seems to have become enamored with "Q-anon culture."  It'...

 Too much to do. But will be back soon...

I posted the following on Facebook the other day: “Who is looting whom? Grabbing off the TV set? He doesn't really want the TV se...

I haven't blogged here in a while, and I'm thinking it's a good idea to start up again.  I'd been not blogging so much beca...

Recently Brad Warner wrote some stuff on Twitter which I found, personally, somewhat irresponsible - basically stating that people should ...

I write this a lot on various forums, social media, etc.  And I'm going to expand a little on it today, based on, yes, another B...

He's avoided social media, so  I thought I'd weigh in on a few of his recent posts.... On transgender-ness ,  I think the...

It's an interesting confluence of things these days; I'm reading more about the anti-12 Step movement on line, and the more I read...

Sometimes, you wake up and find out that you've got to help a lot more people a lot more deeply than you've been doing. That'...

I hadn't thought much about severely disturbed people and the practice of Zen, but Adam Tebbe clearly had problems beyond what he thou...