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March 2018

March 06, 2018
"Koans are a rag-bag. They are not schematized. They are a hoard of old sayings...
March 05, 2018
My friend and mentor the Zen priest and scholar Glenn Taylor Webb, Kangan Osho, just...
March 03, 2018
    A little later today my spouse and I are off to Joshua Tree...
March 02, 2018
    A Facebook friend active with a Zen meditation group asked me what I...
March 01, 2018
Zen has always been intimately tied up with the arts. The way Zen approaches life,...

February 2018

February 26, 2018
  Maurine Stuart died on this day, the 26th of February, 1990. I wrote of...
February 25, 2018
        Songs in Praise of Tending an Ox: Three Zen Talks by...
February 24, 2018
      Explain Mu so a baby can understand. Traditional Zen koan   One...
February 23, 2018
  Zen, the Tangle of Language, and the Heart of Our Liberation James Myoun Ford...
February 22, 2018
I've been rereading a small book by the late Zen teacher Philip Kapleau, called the...
February 20, 2018
The Zen master Yuan-chih of Chang-China Hall in Fu county once addressed the monks in...
February 19, 2018
      I was driving home from a meeting with a friend who has...
February 18, 2018
      Mapping Our Spiritual Journey A Meditation on Our Broken World, Zen’s Ten...
February 17, 2018
    Recently on a Facebook group to which I belong one of the members...
February 16, 2018
    In my view there are two great American original religions. One is the...
February 15, 2018
In various parts of East Asian Buddhism today, the 15th of February (for some the...
February 14, 2018
      Somehow I love that this year the Christian holy day of Ash...
February 13, 2018
      There's a saying floating around the interwebs, "We are all broken, that's...
February 12, 2018
  Charles Darwin was born on this day in 1809. Me, I mark it out...
February 10, 2018
      In fact it isn't rocket science. The biggest problem is how people...
February 09, 2018
I appear to have come down with the dreaded man cold. I start with a...
February 08, 2018
I was talking with a friend about love. Is love God? Is God love? Two...
February 07, 2018
Mu & Buddha Nature A Reflection on Zen & Koan Introspection By Josh Bartok Josh...
February 06, 2018
    Today is the anniversary of that moment in 1918 when the English Parliament's...
February 06, 2018
      On Lay Practice Within North American Soto Zen James Ishmael Ford 5...
February 05, 2018
        How It is Supposed to Be: A Zen Meditation Jan Seymour-Ford...
February 04, 2018
Blue Cliff Zen Sangha held its first sesshin, intensive Zen meditation retreat, between the 1st &...
February 04, 2018
    What They Dreamed Be Ours to Do A Meditation on Universalism & Restitution,...
February 01, 2018
Busy putting things in bags. Getting ready. And just a pause. Our little Blue Cliff...

January 2018

January 30, 2018
This past Sunday I went to Boston, picked up my old colleague and dear friend Walt Wieder,...
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