Fall….
This was taken outside the Tokyo National Museum. I had spent a pleasant few hours wandering the Museum …
Category Archives: Zen
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 …
Solitude….
After visitors or a few days in the company of others I inevitably crave solitude and silence. Nothing against …
The Dog’s Life Of A Blogger….!
Sometimes I look back on my day’s work and say: “damn, that’s good!” Yesterday was one of those days. …
Slowing Down….
Riding the rainy windswept heights above Loch Ness, Scotland…. Yesterday, Saturday, I rode a bus an hour out of …
The Ever Ongoing Flow Of Life….
“Cityful passing away, other cityful coming, passing away too: other coming along, passing on.”—James Joyce, Ulysses If you’ve …
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