A Mahayana Bodhisattva trusts without doubt. After building his new hut next to his temple, Shitou explains to himself and to us that trust is an essential aspect to his life. Sure, he has lived… Singing and Building Our Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage PART THREE
The old man illumines forms and their nature and knows that we share in the suffering of birth and death. Each one of us was born and each one of us will die. A Single… We All Suffer Birth & Death – A Buddhist Invitation
It is hard for us in the 21st century to image building a grass hut up in a far-off mountain range. A place we would call home! It is unthinkable. We love all our conveniences… Singing and Building Our Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage PART TWO
Ven. Master Jy Din Shakya with Rev. Ming Zhen Shakya PREFACE REMEMBERING MASTER XU YUN by Chan Master Jy Din Shakya Xu Yun is translated into English as “Empty Cloud”, a translation which often confuses… Remembering Empty Cloud
Only the Truth and Nothing But the Truth… So Help Me All created things are impermanent. That’s really quite a mouthful. But I’ll continue. All created things are suffering. Well, that too is true. I… How to Survive the Collapse of the Silver Lining
We are all one cloth. We all are powered from somewhere else. Consider it. All one power grid or separate bits and pieces of power grids? Are you a separate being or part… All One Cloth
Equanimity, is the Antidote to Jealousy, Envy and Thinking You Are Better or Worse Than Someone Else Equanimity is the wisdom to know the transient nature of everything. I will begin with the state of… Do You Think You are Better Than or Worse Than Someone Else?
The Third Position: Neither Here, Nor There Then, Once and Now… EF Hulsizer, 2004 It is just a matter of hitting the bell, closing the door, lighting a candle. In the past IT abides, In… A Poem to Take to Heart
We play at Paste – We play at Paste – Till qualified, for Pearl – Then, drop the Paste – And deem Ourself a fool – The Shapes, tho’, were similar, And our new Hands… We play with Paste by Emily Dickinson, 1862
…despite the impossibility of tracing back a single effect to a single cause, human nature allows for no other response to an event…. there is always a determined effort to isolate an effect’s cause… Dog on Ice
Heed the wisdom from above…don’t look back…keep going…to high ground…in the Mind. I have always been taken with the Jewish story of Lot’s wife. She is a woman to remember even though we don’t know… What do you do when you are suddenly the recipient of bad news?