An Outpost From A Complex World

Choreography of Negative Space What is this dance if not a whisper of shape Tracing words in the dark. A trail of light on film. A ...

Eternal mirror — The caul of our birth replaced By separation. The great round mirror Neither wisdom or reason — Virtue of buddhas. The mir...

A Clear Mirror How To Manual ? ...I wish. Actually though, the  Clear Mirror How To Manual  exists -- in the form of the round mirror. ...

Last night I startled myself awake from a dream in which I was sitting. The whole dream was a little strange. To my consternation, at ...

I said in an earlier post on the clear mirror that during zazen: - We learn that mind percieves and processes experience. We learn that mi...

If the clear mirror is 'when self expands to include everyone and everything', it's a concept we can aim for but can't trul...

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...