Between These Two
When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. Between these two my life moves. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) ‘You are not
When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. Between these two my life moves. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) ‘You are not
Written on a monastery wall at Mount Athos, Greece: This is exactly the work of true meditation. It is very, very, very hard to express in words the “how” of
They were raw and direct insights like these that caused Schopenhauer to have such a salutary, disruptive role in my formation, finally leading me conceptually from the confines of the
Recently, I was visiting the aged mother of one of my Zen students. The old woman lived alone in a big house, since her husband and brothers and sisters had
In Zen practice, we meditate on the question, “What was your original face, before your parents were born?” Seeing these new colorized, re-digitized old films of a relatively recent world
This is all we do in meditation. Sometimes I “nudge” the practitioners, during sitting, “What hears that? What sees this breathing… happening…? What is the witness?” and “Leave thinking alone
A truly moving poem on a matter I have wondered about, many many times: Which is the day that I pass — unknowing, unawares — which will become the day
떠들썩하고 시끄러운 모습이라는 뜻. 野 : 들 야 壇 : 제터 단 法 : 법 법 席 : 자리 석 《불교대사전》에 나오는 말이다. ‘야단(野壇)’이란 ‘야외에 세운 단’이란 뜻이고, ‘법석(法席)’은 ‘불법을
It seems like 5 years ago already that we were advertising this ad that Pablo and I designed together on a train rocketing down to give a Dharma talk at