Notes in Samsara

TLDR: The Confucian notion of 仁 - close enough to Buddhist compassion here - can lead one to understand why a) I need to model 仁  in my d...

It's name was taken from the title of a show on WBAI a long time ago, hosted early Saturday mornings by a guy named Simon Loekle .   T...

First, I'd put other qualifiers in if I could...but I can't, because I don't think I can abide those other qualifiers frankly,...

Warning: This post may contain ideas that are not what people want to read.  I apologize in advance,  and am willing to revise my views, b...

I have had to try to move my practice to other areas of my life, as "sitting zen" has been a problem for me of late, since it wa...

Now, recently an "open letter from Dylan Farrow" appeared in the NY Times.   It was accompanied by an op-ed from Nicholas Kristof...

I recently had a Twitter exchange with someone who I respect greatly about the whole Dylan Farrow/Woody Allen issue.  I found Woody Allen ...

I find it really easy to look over what some other folks are doing and say "NO THEY'RE WRONG!!!" It's  really  easy....

I was pretty repulsed reading this piece on Talkingpointsmemo.com about the online harassment and hate speech directed against Jill Filipo...

TLDR : Sweeping Zen seems to be more personality driven than teaching and practice driven.  Moreover,  a lot of what's on that blog do...

I realize that a couple of the blogs mentioned I wouldn't recommend to the casual visiter to this site.   I've had specific reserv...

Sexual harassment and other misuse of sexuality is unacceptable. Speaking ill of whole classes of people is unacceptable. In fact wrong...

Beyond, of course whether one should be in a position of authority or not.  At least one of the above should not be, that would be at leas...

The problem of leisure What to do for pleasure Ideal love a new purchase A market of the senses Dream of the perfect life Economic circ...

Nathan quotes  and comments a bit from Chapter 6 of the Diamond Sutra, and I wanted to comment on that as well. The relevant part of Cha...

To walk in  money  through the  night  crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath ...

One reason I'm kind of bored with the Shimano thing is that in looking at the Sweeping Zen stories (they don't seem to stop), I ki...

I haven't had much time in the past few months to post here; there's been a lot to do at work, so much so that even home life has n...

I'm not part of the whole yoga culture thing, but there you are . So much about that I don't' understand. I mean, martial a...

I was recently asked by a Christian person whether or not there was a similarity between asking for indulgences that the Catholic Church o...