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Where Suffering Cooks UP

Although Pandora’s box was really a jar, when she, who was made of clay, took off the the lid out came all the evils and troubles for the world. We do the same thing. When… 

In the Bardo: Uncertainty as Refuge

Brilliant! Both the novel, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders and this spiritual illumination of his work by Getsu San Ku Shin. “A bardo is the transitional space between death and re-birth, filled with… 

Think Differently!

Think Differently! There is Nothing in the World and  Everything All at Once Nothing is separated as the jet rolls across the sky and the “I” is at once everything hearing its own roar. The… 

A Deeper Embrace

Are you in a spiritual crisis? Don’t forget the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS….a monk in training reminds us of the power of these teachings.

On Shi Ke Two Minds in Harmony

An inspiring elucidation of two masterpiece’s by Shi Ke. Ming Zhen helps us see beyond the obvious in Master Shi Ke’s figure painting into the spiritual magnificence of Shi Ke’s depiction of the Nirvanic Void,… 

Create the Conditions

At first glance we might mistake this instruction Create the Conditions to represent a makeover of our house, a clean out of things in the closets and dresser drawers or a pledge to fix things… 

Killing by visiting writer Sophia Meyer-Greene

Imaginative. Evocative. Lingering. Has Sophia Meyer-Greene tapped into our universal trait in her new flash fiction….   Killing   “It has to be done,” she writes. “It has to.” She asserts. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Killing By Sophia… 

Mystical Zen by Ming Zhen Shakya

On Zenmar’s Presentation of The Sutta on Antecedentness by Breath by Ming Zhen Shakya, OHY (Majjhima Nikaya 3.82 Translated by Ven. Shakya Aryanatta. From The Authorized Dark Zen Meditation Manual of Buddhism.) The question has long… 

It’s Broken

Some time ago I heard this story….told by a Buddhist teacher. She with several others went on a trip to Southeast Asia to work with Theravada Buddhist monks. When they arrived they were shown to…