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To a person of Zen, words are a mixed blessing. They can lead you astray or open your mind to the music of the muses. One of the greates...

Previously, I published a book, The Non-Identity Crisis—The crisis that endangers our worl d. The topic of the book concerns a common mis...

I’ve written about this issue before, but our divided response to the current political race for  a new POTUS deserves review. This is a te...

Some years ago, my teacher painted calligraphy for me that said, “A single drop of rain waters 10,000 pines.” While not literally true...

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Not many books on Zen have achieved the notoriety...

Ignorance based fear. A while ago I came across a greeting card, intended as encouragement, that said, “Don’t let reality get in the...

If it isn’t patently clear by now, “my way” is the highway to somebody else, who considers “our way” the flip side of “their way.” Wouldn’...

“Dogma” is the thorn in our collective side. It is always heated, exuberant, and close-minded. The message of dogma is one of self-righteou...

Allegedly we are a nation based on fixed principles articulated in The Constitution and reinforced by moral beliefs (mostly Christian). With...

Seeing through the fog of delusion. “Look straight ahead. What’s there? If you see it as it is, you will never err.” These were the wor...

From time to time, it ’ s worth recycling some posts. This one, in particular, is such a post since it addresses the underpinnings of how l...

In 2002, authors Wayne Gray and Christian Schunn published an article in the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cog...