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October 2016

October 02, 2016
Well, there is a breakfast, after which the board will meet - but, otherwise the...
October 01, 2016
Once Upon a Time There Was a Queen Named Love James Ishmael Ford The world,...

September 2016

September 30, 2016
Those of us who love koans, the spiritual discipline unique to Zen are aware of...
September 30, 2016
Jesus saw some babies nursing. He said to his disciples, “These nursing babies are like...
September 29, 2016
Bishop Gengo Akiba, head of the continental North American branch of the Japanese Soto Zen...
September 28, 2016
When we practice zazen (Zen meditation) our mind always follows our breathing. When we inhale,...
September 27, 2016
When I was young my grandmother would tell me as someone raised in Missouri she...
September 26, 2016
It was forty-seven years ago today that the Beatles released their eleventh album, Abbey Road....
September 25, 2016
Rick Fields was a poet, a journalist, and author of the first comprehensive history of...
September 24, 2016
A Story by Chuang-tzu, translated by Thomas Merton & collected in Stephen Mitchell’s The Enlightened...
September 22, 2016
To be honest, just for a moment, just between the two of us: we really...
September 21, 2016
John Wesley Hardrick was born on this day in 1891. As early as eight he...
September 21, 2016
According to the good folk at Wikipedia, "In a 1955 letter to W. H. Auden,...
September 20, 2016
In 1948, incidentally the year of my birth, BBC radio hosted a debate on whether...
September 19, 2016
In the middle of the nineteenth century a geographer and cartographer, Kim Jeong-ho presented the...
September 18, 2016
GETTING TO KNOW YOU A Meditation on Spiritual Community Mitra Rahnema & James Ishmael Ford...
September 17, 2016
The truth is more than one religion finds its source in what outsiders would call...
September 16, 2016
Riley B. King was born near Itta Bena, in Mississippi on this day in 1925....
September 15, 2016
The Japanese monk Saicho was born on this day in 767. A signal figure in...
September 13, 2016
Milton Hershey was born on this day in 1857. And the National Confectioners Cartel, I...
September 12, 2016
Recently someone posted a meme that made its way to my Facebook page that proclaimed,...
September 11, 2016
On that 11th day of September 2001, just before the first tower fell, trapped on...
September 10, 2016
The American poet Mary Oliver was born on this day in 1935. For those of...
September 09, 2016
I was reading on Facebook a critique of the modernist Buddhist interpreter Stephen Batchelor's objections...
September 09, 2016
Sister Constance, born Caroline Louise Darling in Medway, Massachusetts in 1846, joined Mother Harriet Starr...
September 08, 2016
Use it wisely...
September 08, 2016
For many of my liturgically minded Christian friends, particularly Catholics of those various stripes I...
September 07, 2016
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: a Way of Life is a quite interesting film...
September 06, 2016
What can I say? Even the Dalai Lama likes this book! And, absolutely, so do...
September 05, 2016
I find it hard to believe. But, it was today in 2006 that I posted...
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