The Tour De L’Ile… Of Life!…
Me finishing the day!… Yesterday I rode my bicycle the 145 kms, 90 miles, around the circumference of the …
Tag Archives: Buddhism
Shinto… Simplicity And Awe….
“For Shinto, at root, is a religion not of sermons but of awe: which is a sentiment that may …
Zen Simplicity….
Meditation Gardens, D.T. Suzuki Museum, Kanazawa, Japan “The intellect proves itself as a kind of nuisance in more ways …
The Street….
The heat and humidity of the day was relenting and a light breeze was blowing a blessed freshness over …
Yesterday And Today….
My generation was lucky. We crossed the fraught years of adolescence before home video games took hold towards …
500….!
Yesterday WordPress notified me I had just published my 500th post here at the Omphalos Cafe. ‘Really?’ I …
The Ten Thousand Voices….
““And do you know,” continued Siddhartha, “what word it [the river] pronounces when one is successful in hearing all …
Buddha Laughter….
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”—Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass I happened yesterday …
Zen East and West….
Zen’s story goes back centuries, but it is a simple one. Buddhism was birthed in India and it …
A Zen Moment….
Zen is unthinking oneness with the instant we are living now. And I suppose you could say there …
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