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May 2009

May 31, 2009
When you reach this point of "no stink of enlightenment" where there is no trace,...
May 29, 2009
We're moving into the last couple weeks of the 100 days. By the way, I'm...
May 27, 2009
My interest in this question resurfaced during my holiday re-reading of Mark Rowe's article, "Where...
May 26, 2009
We enjoyed Memorial Day Weekend at one of our favorite places - the North Shore...
May 22, 2009
The first water lily leaves are showing themselves on Bald Eagle Lake. The leaves are...
May 21, 2009
I've got a couple things for you today. First, a lovely, evocative poem from today's...
May 19, 2009
This week we're looking at "forgetting the self" and I've asked the people in the...
May 17, 2009
Struck by lightening, burned, split apart, holes pecked through and yet this tree keeps growing....
May 15, 2009
The next Genjokoan post will move from "studying the self" and "the nose inadvertently in...
May 14, 2009
Above is the crab apple tree in the Yugeji front yard, blooming so fully and...
May 12, 2009
From Stuart Davis to Bokusan to Bob Dylan (some say he's got the blood of...
May 11, 2009
May 10, 2009
Today is the first anniversary of putting up this blog. I started it just to...
May 08, 2009
First a clarification about how people in different cultures construct the self. Except for the...
May 07, 2009
This might seem like a silly question but the recent discussion of the experiences of...
May 05, 2009
I've just come in from working in the garden, cleaning the perimeter and pruning the...
May 03, 2009
Just back from a Sunday visit to the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church ("let's do...
May 02, 2009
I've had a full week with with my 53rd birthday and a local-Zen-people meeting. In...

April 2009

April 29, 2009
The intimate verification of "no eyes, no ears, no road" is essential or Zen is...
April 27, 2009
Today I've got an excerpt from a talk by Katagiri Roshi that GS transcribed recently...
April 26, 2009
Here's an interesting article (thanks to Barry for pointing it out) about Zen and psychotherapy...
April 25, 2009
Above is Yugeji practitioner Shodo and dog Bodhi. Which is the original face? What is...
April 24, 2009
The photo is another from Glynn at Empty Hand - thanks - I think I've...
April 22, 2009
Something came up in my life recently that seemed important and that required a decision one way...
April 21, 2009
April 20, 2009
The above photo (thanks to Barbara for suggestions and Buddhafrog for fixing this!) just in...
April 17, 2009
We'll be in sesshin, gathering the heart, this weekend at Wild Fox Zen Transforming Through...
April 15, 2009
I've continued to enjoy browsing for perspectives on the path of the bird. William Powell...
April 14, 2009
Here’s something I discovered while poking around for Dungshan’s teaching on the path of the...
April 13, 2009
Our investigating-zazen-and-life-as-kappatsupatsu (an onomatopoeia for the leaping of the carp as it climbs upstream) focus...
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