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Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.

‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill

December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 Vanessa Able

Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.

English Poetry

William Wordsworth – The Rainbow

October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 Vanessa Able

This short poem – Wordsworth’s ode to a rainbow – is a simple and direct expression of awe and manifestation of ‘beginner’s mind.’

Featured Poetry

Brandon McQuade – Jamaica

August 21, 2022August 24, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Wyoming poet Brandon McQuade’s “Jamaica” is a narrative of searching for God in the tropics and coming face to face with disillusionment.

Book Bits

What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 Vanessa Able

David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.

Koans, The Masters

The Koan of Baso’s Very Mind

May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

Baso’s Very Mind is the 30th case or koan in the Mumonkan, The Gateless Barrier, a collection compiled in the 13th century by Rinzai master Wumen Huikai.

Way-Seeking Mind

Pigs in Winter

August 10, 2022August 28, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY QUINCY MCMICHAEL
Snow is water, and water conducts electricity, but the electric fence will not fire as usual, buried three feet deep.

Book of the Month

Everything is Made of Mind: Norman Fischer on the Playing-Out of Impermanence and Eternity

June 15, 2021June 18, 2021 Vanessa Able

“Life is the wind. Life is the water. As long as life appears as phenomena there will be the stirrings of delusion. Delusion is in fact the movement, the stirring, of awakening.” – Norman Fischer In this 2019 essay featured in his new book, When You Greet Me, I Bow, Zen teacher and poet, Norman… Continue reading Everything is Made of Mind: Norman Fischer on the Playing-Out of Impermanence and Eternity

Book Bits, The Masters

Focusing the Mind: Santideva’s Verses on Meditation and Relationship

June 7, 2021June 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

Santideva talks about the practice of meditation as a means to reveal Awakening Mind, here particularly focusing on the discipline and skill of relationship.