Equanimity, is the Antidote to Jealousy, Envy and Thinking You Are Better or Worse Than Someone Else Equanimity is the wisdom to know the transient… Read More »Do You Think You are Better Than or Worse Than Someone Else?
The Third Position: Neither Here, Nor There Then, Once and Now… EF Hulsizer, 2004 It is just a matter of hitting the bell, closing the… Read More »A Poem to Take to Heart
December 27, 2020, Falling Off the World A cold morning below a shimmering gray-cloud illusion above. To the East, the illusion splits apart letting the… Read More »A Person of the Way Fundamentally Does Not Dwell Anywhere
If you truly appreciate (value) a single thread, your eye (see) can suitably meet the world and its changes. Value – I’ve built a grass… Read More »Sit Empty of Worldly Anxiety Zen Master Hongzhi
We play at Paste – We play at Paste – Till qualified, for Pearl – Then, drop the Paste – And deem Ourself a fool… Read More »We play at Paste, By Emily Dickinson, 1862
Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage By Shitou Xiqian I’ve built a grass hut where there’s nothing of value. After eating, I relax and enjoy… Read More »Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage
I read this morning that the early Christian church took on the laws and structures of the Roman state. It was when persecutions of Christians… Read More »TRENDS
Join Us for Morning Sitting in Silence Welcome Just a few notes: Please mute yourself when you enter. The sitting will start with 3 bells and… Read More »Morning Sitting
Heed the wisdom from above…don’t look back…keep going…to high ground…in the Mind. I have always been taken with the Jewish story of Lot’s wife. She… Read More »What do you do when suddenly you are the recipient of BAD news?
Please click on the link. For anyone contemplating becoming a contemplative monk – MONK REVISION (3)