Notes in Samsara

The other day,  I came across this article on Sendona, Arizona, in The Guardian: Sedona has no major churches, no relics, no establi...

I come from a family with six kids, and as a young child my Christmases were usually anti-climactic, and sometimes worse than that.  Every...

I've practiced Zen for something like 25 years or so, that is, Zen meditation or Zazen ( 座禅 ). I don’t often talk or write about it ...

Many of us, perhaps even many Trump voters, don't want fascism in the US. Brad Warner I think finds the tumult in the aftermath of Tr...

Today, two people at worked asked me essentially the same question.  I was actually confused; isn't the "goal" of exercise to...

Sorry for 2 posts in a row about this topic, but I think it's important for people to know just what we're talking about when we ta...

Last year I showed up and Falun DaFa was there.   They're there again this year .  I brought this up to the BPF organizer, Heidi, and ...

The more I think about it, the more I think about how the ethos of the hidden master - the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" etho...

I have never written a post on the Dharmakaya in the 10+ years this blog has existed. I'm not sure anyone else has either, except ...

Via Buddhist Geeks, I came across  this piece on (")Buddhist ethics(")  by David Chapman, who I have to say is a guy I haven...

Brad Warner has an interesting piece out that deals with issues that have been on my mind for quite a while. Success depends on measur...

I wanted to write a bit on this piece I found by Koun Franz on Zen Culture , from my perspective as a guy who's been doing Rinzai Zen ...