We're Not Just Newport! How Civilizations Endure

We're Not Just Newport. Read my take on "How Civilizations Endure."

Remembrance of Things Past Communing with Ancestral Land (Guest post)

Gorgeous personal history, a Zen Meditation

Beautiful pic and where is the damn moon oh Maude?

Beyond Outrage When Words Fail

This post is ACTUALLY about inspiration. Not kidding

Iran Is Setting the Pace; Trump Is Reacting. Beyond the bluster and carnage let’s look at the current situation in...

Iran Is Setting the Pace; Trump Is Reacting.
The best analysis. Use link below for access: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-n...

The Rambling Road by Anna Petra Liebenow (Guest post)

The Rambling Road "Expanding My Edges....I Paint with my Mouth." True Story

"Dulce et Decorum Est" Forgotten Dissenters of The First World War

We've been "here" before. Take heart from brave dissenters who were very very much in the minority.

This is what Courage Looks Like
tinyurl.com/Would-You-Open
By Weayonnoh Nelson-Davies, ED of RI's Economic Progress Institute.

"Spain In Our Hearts" Sparks from an Earlier Uprising Against Fascism

Echoes AND Inspirations (YES!) from the Spanish Civil War. Really

Farts and Shouts My Life with a Zen Master

Farts and Shouts

My Life with a Zen Master!
You can see the full Heads in the post!!

NO KINGS, ALL KINGS Walking in Paradise, Recalling Loss. Whispering Trees.

My Personal Journey.
NO. Just Not Mine

Yeah

"Be Joyful Though You Have Considered all the Facts" O.K., Wendell Berry. But HOW?

Learning from Vaclav Havel, Wendell Berry and the "Buddha on Death Row". TO live when all seems dark.

Hi Frank. Is that a Kong-an? Are you still in Kansas or nearby? Have great love for that sangha, talked w Judy a few weeks ago, sorry to hear of Stan's decline....

And those people still exist. Sigh

Summer school in September! Sweet!

Roshi I keep remembering what Soen sa Nim said when people would ask "What to do when there is an Atomic Bomb?"

"Become one with the Bomb" (laughing of course)

Left-handed Bard! My Ambidextrous Son

Love this man and his Poetry!

Join Bhikkhu Bodhi online Sept 28 for the Awareness in Action series. His perspective around genocide, war, peace and sanity is essential to hear at this time. Free, online, donation appreciated.
www.upaya.org/program/enga...

Thank you for hosting this Roshi Joan. So needed!!

"West Kansas." And Gaza. "Don't be a Buddhist. Just be a Mensch." By Roshi Eve Marko.

“I have a feeling that in future Jewish history, Gaza will have that same reaction. Many of us will get a look on our faces—already get a look on our faces—that won’t let up."

Eve Marko is an extraordinary Zen teacher and writer. More about her in this post

Indeed!

Does a Peach have Umami Nature? The Flavor of My Family

About my family's "mishegoss", a cat lounge and a (repurposed) Zen koan

No Time for Silence • Bhikkhu Bodhi In this updated article, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, one of the most respected translators of the Buddha Dharma into English, implores us to speak out about the moral crisis implicit in Israel’s Gaza campaign...

This was well over a year ago, yet to my knowledge very few Western Buddhist teachers have spoken out publicly. Many of these I know and have been beacons of clarity, compassion and courage in my life. What is holding you and them back?

‘The tide is shifting’: Massive Australian protest over Gaza crisis seen as a sign of growing global alarm | CNN That so many people braved the elements for the hastily organized event – conceived just seven days before – suggests that Australians want their government to act, the organizer said.

Time for Americans, particularly fellow progressive Jews who are horrified, to stop playing it safe and speak out. And pressure Jewish institutions and politicians too cowed by donors/AIPAC to take a stand.

The Bard of Tecumseh Introducing Malcolm

The Bard of Tecumseh -- That 's my poetic son, Malcolm. For his entire head, click the link

Great Joyful Proclaimer The "Ghandi of Cambodia" would not wear a coat

Maha Ghosananda. On my altar. Along with Soen sa Nim. Two courageous, outrageous, compassionate and wise men. Whom I was privileged to know

To Wit! We Need It, Yeah?

Thought a little humor might be needed!

Duh. This Ain’t Violence. They just want it to be

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