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March 2017

March 21, 2017
The Christian theologian Karl Barth said that one needs to preach holding the Bible in...
March 20, 2017
I've just finished reading Diane Musho Hamilton's The Zen of You & Me. The subtitle...
March 19, 2017
A MEDITATION ON SPIRITUALITY AFTER RELIGIONS Or, Mark Twain’s Large Dream 19 March 2017 James...
March 17, 2017
Despite having been here from before the beginning of the Republic, with the great waves...
March 16, 2017
Jurgis Bielinis was born on this day, the 16th of March, 1846, in Purviskiai, Lithuania....
March 15, 2017
A lot of people sure seem to think so. Jeong Kwan is a Zen Buddhist...
March 14, 2017
I understand that when he would give talks the early Zen missionary to the Barbarians...
March 13, 2017
There's an excerpt from a letter written by Alexander Hamilton in 1792 going around the...
March 13, 2017
I find myself think about the Buddhist teaching of emptiness. A lot, actually. For me it...
March 12, 2017
As the hour approached midnight on the evening of the 11th of March, 2017, in...
March 11, 2017
Jan and I were walking into the parking lot after a quick run to one...
March 10, 2017
I opened my email today to find the poem of the day from Panhala was...
March 09, 2017
In his Confession and Other Religious Writings, Leo Tolstoy tells us: “There is an old...
March 08, 2017
        Yunyan asked Daowu, ‘How does the Bodhisattva Guanyin use those many...
March 07, 2017
Sit down. The Buddha said there are four ways to meditate. Sitting, standing, lying down,...
March 06, 2017
As it happens it was on this day in 1943 that Norman Rockwell's painting Freedom...
March 05, 2017
WHO IS OUR NEIGHBOR? A Meditation for Hard Times James Ishmael Ford 5 March 2017...
March 04, 2017
Wandering around the webosphere can be worth the trouble. You just never know what you're...
March 03, 2017
I look at myself and at others and I see some common realities. I believe...
March 03, 2017
Arthel Lane Watson was born on this day in 1923. Doc, as we all call...
March 02, 2017
It all started when I noted that the eighth and last attempt to assassinate Queen...
March 01, 2017
Old Zen hand, Pulitzer prize winning poet, essayist, and the poet laureate of Deep Ecology...
March 01, 2017
Words from Valarie Kaur. One of the more beautiful reflections I've heard in a long...

February 2017

February 28, 2017
There's a lot of confusion about Zen meditation, breath counting, just sitting, and koan introspection....
February 27, 2017
Alan Watts' book Psychotherapy East & West was first published by Pantheon in 1961. It...
February 26, 2017
Over the years Jan & I have said we'd love to go the movies more....
February 25, 2017
Mary Gates is a past interesting person. She's a psychologist. She's an Episcopal priest. She's...
February 25, 2017
Thanks to Adam Cohen for this...
February 24, 2017
I am fully expecting a moving testimonial sometime today from Mr Trump singing praises of the...
February 23, 2017
Karl Theodor Jaspers was born on this day, the 23rd of February, 1883, Oldenburg, in...
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