Monkey Mind

What is now many years ago when Jan & I first moved to New England's rocky and lovely soil, Jan wanted to go to the Cambridge cemetery to put a rose on Henry James' grave.

Alan Watts is lucid, he is inviting, possibly he is seductive. his vision is of an invitation into a world at play with itself.

Keiji Nishitani died on the 24th of November, in 1990. I mean to mark this day as it rolls around and take advantage of it to remind those

What I do know is someone rare and awesome has passed through this world.

According to the story a Mexican indigenous peasant, Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin had a series of encounters with a wondrous woman between the 9th and 12th of December, in 1531.

There are many who help to carry us to the farther shore. Juan de Yepes y Alverez was born into a Converso family near the town of Avila on the 24th of June, 1542.

What a wonder the world is when we don't insist on a particular conclusion, or even survival. Wanting permanence is a great trap in the Buddhist telling of things, of the way things are.

A Dharma talk first delivered by Edward Sanshin Oberholtzer, Roshi a couple of days ago and now reprinted here with a tiny bit of editing making it for today rather than those few days ago.

Here we are well into Hanukkah. A most interesting holiday. One I understand that the rabbis, and quite correctly, have always felt more than ambivalent about.

Whether Christian, Buddhist, or other traditions, there is healing power in this work which is rooted in love and understanding.