We’re all certain that we’re immune to the contagion of disastrous conviction, that we’ll never be vulnerable to a belief that is too foolish… Read More »KUDZU, BLACK PEARLS, & DANGEROUS BELIEFS – Part 2
Belief, being as contagious as a virus and often just as deadly, can put a teacher in the uncomfortable position of being both its vector… Read More »KUDZU, BLACK PEARLS, & DANGEROUS BELIEFS – Part 1
Have you read Lincoln in the Bardo? Author George Saunders is a Buddhist, and this award-winning novel is a Buddhist fable. It is a… Read More »In the Bardo: Uncertainty as Refuge
Think Differently! There is Nothing in the World and Everything All at Once Nothing is separated as the jet rolls across the sky and the… Read More »Think Differently!
Imaginative. Evocative. Lingering. Has Sophia Meyer-Greene tapped into our universal trait in her new flash fiction, Killing “It has to be done,” she writes. “It… Read More »Killing by Sophia Meyer-Greene
We think we have plenty of time, especially when we are young and vibrant. Youth intoxicates us into thinking we have time to postpone what… Read More »What When We Do It Leads to Eternal Well-Being
There’s been a lot of talk about power buttons lately….here’s the monk’s power button….
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I am an old woman and have lived most of my life as a catholic nun. My core is Jesus Christ and close to him… Read More »An Old Woman Trains to Be a Monk: Her Journey
Please note this essay is to be taken as all model and metaphor. It was in the thirteenth century, when the Zen schools flourished, that… Read More »ALCHEMICAL DETACHMENT AND INTEGRATION Part 3 by Ming Zhen Shakya