Dispatch From My Mobile Mountain Hermit’s Hut…..
Thanks for the comment, Stasia, it’s much appreciated. Binge watched all JJ videos? Ouch. But then you’re …
Category Archives: Zen
More Zen Than Zen….
The destination… …and the Journey. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey. Which of course everyone knows, or at the …
Making the Change….
Sitting in a pleasant Calgary coffee shop called Gravity the other day I was working on what will eventually become …
My Quiet Little Place Apart….
Three month since my last post. But then, why post at all I sometimes ask myself? Not that I grow …
Crazy (Crazy?) Jottings…
So I’m back from the auto shop where our vehicle was in on a recall. Quick and painless, these recalls …
The Omphalos Cafe’s Four Noble Truths…
Go big or go home, as the saying goes. And what these days is so big in the spiritual domain …
The Self-Referentiality of Buddhism
A puzzling problem… Having a day largely to myself I decide to walk downtown with the object of taking in …
words… or Words?
“The Zen master has no deliberate scheme on his part to make his statements of satori uncouth or logically unpalatable; …
It Goes Without Saying….
“It goes without saying that Zen is neither psychology nor philosophy, but that it is an experience charged with deep …
Everyday Zen
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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