Tag: zen

  • Thoughts on kindness

    The zen center I belong to is going through precepts study at the moment, so I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about them lately. During this  study period you are supposed read them every morning and then the idea is that the wisdom bubbles up into your daily life. The reading of them in the…

  • “Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you don’t love.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Fifty-four years lighting up the sky. A quivering leap smashes a billion worlds. Hah! Entire body looks for nothing. Living, I plunge into Yellow Springs. -Dogen ——— geeky photo bits: This was taken with my Zero 45 pinhole camera using the 25mm configuration. I used Arista.edu 100. The poem is Dogen’s death poem. I read…

  • I went through a Term Student program at my Sangha this past Fall. This is, simply, a period of time when you focus a bit more intensely on your practice. I learned so much about myself during this time. I will blog more about it – if I can find the words to say about it.…

  • A few weeks ago I was in the middle of a children’s craft program. We were making mini collages on magnets and I was thumbing through a stack of old magazines to find stuff for my collage. I happened on the book review page for People Magazine from last year and a book cover caught…