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Category Archives: Zen

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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It Goes Without Saying….

May 5, 2015

“It goes without saying that Zen is neither psychology nor philosophy, but that it is an experience charged with deep …

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Everyday Zen

February 10, 2015

Every moment Zen. Of course that’s what the Cafe is about. There is a retreat, a withdrawal, in order to …

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