Playing at Paste…Until Qualified for Pearl Part 1
Welcome Dear Friends. This piece may be longer than most of what ZATMA posts. But it is hot off the heart – heated up… Read More »Playing at Paste…Until Qualified for Pearl Part 1
Welcome Dear Friends. This piece may be longer than most of what ZATMA posts. But it is hot off the heart – heated up… Read More »Playing at Paste…Until Qualified for Pearl Part 1
My main practice for many, many years has been Zen Buddhism. It includes sitting, silence and study. Over time and with the help and… Read More »Practice I Am Here
“To Walk Invisible” is a television drama that first aired in 2017 about the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The story tells of… Read More »To Walk Invisible, A Zen Parable
Chapter Two looks at the very heart of our dilemma – it is simple – we are caught in the divided delusion of right and… Read More »Chapter Two – The Human Dilemma
Janus, the Roman God FOREWARD by Fashi Lao Yue When I would grumble about something to Ming Zhen, she would inevitably get to… Read More »Ulterior Defenses, Remixed
It certainly sounds bizarre: the ritual consumption of food or drink that symbolizes or transmutes into the body and blood of a god. Atheists… Read More »Time to Resurrect This Teaching on LOVE
I once heard someone call the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah,” a guy you’d never invite to dinner.” Why’s that? I wondered. Well, Jeremiah was one… Read More »The Prophet Jeremiah and Zen Buddhism
The Broom and the Dustpan Just seeing the photo reminds me of my work in the material world – the world known as the… Read More »The Broom and the Dustpan
Don’t Look Back The past is already past. Don’t try to regain it. Don’t think there is something more important… Read More »Don’t Look Back