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Category Archives: Zen

Dancing….

October 5, 2019

Come dance with me for a spell. Not the sort of dancing people do to the music of today. No, …

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt?….

February 10, 2019

The billboard on the side of the interstate reads: ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Lives!’ And there’s a phone number below …

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Dispatch From My Mobile Mountain Hermit’s Hut…..

May 27, 2018

  Thanks for the comment, Stasia, it’s much appreciated.      Binge watched all JJ videos? Ouch. But then you’re …

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More Zen Than Zen….

September 25, 2017

The destination… …and the Journey.   It’s not the destination, it’s the journey. Which of course everyone knows, or at the …

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Making the Change….

March 5, 2017

Sitting in a pleasant Calgary coffee shop called Gravity the other day I was working on what will eventually become …

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My Quiet Little Place Apart….

March 5, 2017

Three month since my last post. But then, why post at all I sometimes ask myself? Not that I grow …

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Crazy (Crazy?) Jottings…

August 18, 2016

So I’m back from the auto shop where our vehicle was in on a recall. Quick and painless, these recalls …

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The Omphalos Cafe’s Four Noble Truths…

June 23, 2016

Go big or go home, as the saying goes. And what these days is so big in the spiritual domain …

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The Self-Referentiality of Buddhism

December 9, 2015

A puzzling problem… Having a day largely to myself I decide to walk downtown with the object of taking in …

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words… or Words?

June 28, 2015

“The Zen master has no deliberate scheme on his part to make his statements of satori uncouth or logically unpalatable; …

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