Two Quotes That Make Me Laugh… (Now)
Yesterday I was on a plane to Halifax, where after a three night stay I’ll be boarding a train …
Category Archives: Zen
Equanimity…..
“Perform your duty with equipoise, oh Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called Yoga.”—Bhagavad …
A Day Off….
Yesterday after 110 days of uninterrupted posting I took a day off. It was about time I’d say… and …
Challenges….
“‘The men of old,’ say the Chinese, ‘reckon it the highest excellence in poetry that the meaning should be …
Fall….
This was taken outside the Tokyo National Museum. I had spent a pleasant few hours wandering the Museum …
Leaving….
Lao Tsu “As you are about to leave the world behind, could you write a book for my sake?—Words …
Zen Wholeness….
“Zen, it might be said, is the art of being ‘in form’ for everything, all the time. There is …
Again Hesse’s ‘The Poet’….
“Therefore, I beg you to let me go my own way in loneliness for a while and devote myself to …
Words Of A Genuine Shaman-Type….
I don’t usually quote at such length, but I’ve been returning to the following passage again and again since first …
The Plight Of The Struggling Artist….
This is from a response I wrote yesterday, with adaptations, to a comment I received from—with apologies Mame—a compassionate soul …
