The Cloud in the Paper
In “Being Peace” Thich Nhat Hanh writes: “If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper....
Karma Chameleon
In a previous meditation I wrote about rebirth and why I don’t think it’s something we need to be concerned about. Now, I know what some...
Ritual Tea for Life
When we think of a Tea Ceremony we normally think of an hours long Japanese ritual that is as little understood in the West as it is...
Will I Have a Re-Birthday?
I don’t know... I’m a Pragmatic Buddhist and so I accept verifiable knowledge if it can fall into at least one of three types of...
If Zazen Won't Help Me Stop My Thoughts, Why Meditate?
Once, a monk presented the following verse to the Sixth Patriarch, composed by the Chan Master Wo Lun. Wo Lun has ways and means To cut...
How Can There Be No Self? I'm Me!
I think every time I teach about anatman I get some variation on this question. Most of the questions arise from a misunderstanding of...