Notes in Samsara

I also gotta write a response to this "Meditation and Control" essay . Here's my response: What would this author have to ...

I would like to do a series of posts on the above topic.  There's several reasons why: From a Buddhist perspective, the whole idea ...

I mentioned a while back that I had lots of new ideas.   Of late I have had some family difficulties and am working through them.  They hav...

Some of it has to do with recent experiences I can't fully talk about yet, some has to do with the deepening of practice that resulted ...

I'm a little taken aback when I see stuff in the marketplace like books entitled " Why Buddhism Is True ."  It's written...

This post is largely , but not entirely a response to the confluence of a few tweets, one a nice tweet by Brad Warner, which can be found ...

I could have sworn I'd written about this already but recent stuff I've been reading on social media leads me to believe that Cert...

You don't have to look very far on my blog to know that I have been highly critical of the Portland Buddhist Peace Fellowship in re...

Christians have, at times, touted the Lord's Prayer as the "perfect" prayer; it contains evidently all the stuff that monoth...

The Heart Sutra is a fundamental text of Mahayana Buddhism.   As most of my readers who have read my blog are Buddhist, they know about the...

I'm using almost the exact same title of this post as one by Brad Warner , because a) it's roughly about the same topic, b) there ...

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 ...