An Outpost From A Complex World

I've noticed that both sutras and zen writings contain a lot of exaggeration and hyperbole. The exaggeration and hyperbole sometimes hi...

"Mirror mirror on the wall Who is the fairest of them all?" So asks the Queen, Snow White's stepmother. When I first...

I'm starting this one with a joke... How many buddhas does it take to change a lightbulb? Here's at least one possible answer...

I've been wanting to tell folks about a discovery that caused a bit more of the Shobogenzo fall into place for me. I intended to write a...

Today my Sangha performed a Ceremony of Aid. This ceremony usually includes two repetitions of Heart of Perfect Wisdom and five repetitions...

The phrase 'Mind Cannot be Grasped', the title of Shobogenzo Chapters 18 and 19, is from the Diamond Sutra. An implication of the ...

Buddha mind is just connecting. Connecting with what is present. Connecting without expectation. Connecting without expectation for the mo...

The mind likes to make and tell stories. But what I've begun to sense as I've gotten further into the Shobogenzo is that the thought...

In any given moment the extent to which we are able to let go of our expectations for that moment determines our ability to access peace, c...

September skies and a mist hanging over the grass tug me back towards the lost and lonely, though that isn't exactly the truth. Somethin...