The Dharma of the Rat’s Ass
In Memory of Venerable Ming Zhen Shakya My teacher, more times than I can remember, would say to me at the end of a teaching, “I don’t give a rat’s ass.” It was a… The Dharma of the Rat’s Ass
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 we open the My, Me, Mine, I, letting the ego escape from the Pot we let all our troubles out. This pot is our very own version of a Pandora’s box.
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 spiritual tasks and meaning. Bardos arise within our lives, when a mind state of relative clarity disintegrates, and we are thrown, sometimes momentarily, sometimes for years…. We may enter a bardo when we lose a job, move to a new city, have a baby. 9-11 was a bardo for many of us….those times when the printer breaks down, or a major project in which we have been immersed is over. Getsu San Ku Shin helps us navigate this realm with clarity. Well-worth a read, maybe even two or three….
KUDZU, BLACK PEARLS, AND DANGEROUS BELIEFS – Part 2 by Ming Zhen Shakya
We’re all certain that we’re immune to the contagion of disastrous conviction, that we’ll never be vulnerable to a belief that is too foolish even to consider, but the fact is that not only… KUDZU, BLACK PEARLS, AND DANGEROUS BELIEFS – Part 2 by Ming Zhen Shakya
KUDZU, BLACK PEARLS, AND DANGEROUS BELIEFS – Part 1 by Ming Zhen Shakya
Belief, being as contagious as a virus and often just as deadly, can put a teacher in the uncomfortable position of being both its vector and its cure. I wish imparting a truth were more… KUDZU, BLACK PEARLS, AND DANGEROUS BELIEFS – Part 1 by Ming Zhen Shakya
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… Killing by visiting writer Sophia Meyer-Greene
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… Mystical Zen by Ming Zhen Shakya
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… It’s Broken