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Posted on May 27, 2010 with 6 notes
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Posted on February 18, 2010 via Don't lose your dinosaur with 226 notes
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Posted on January 25, 2010 via Infinite Heart with 5 notes
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Plays: 5[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Peter Coyote reads from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki :: ‘The Marrow of Zen.’
I am the ‘worst horse.’ Shunryu Suzuki, as ever, reassures. I wish I’d had the chance to meet him…
Posted on January 25, 2010
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Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.
Surangama Sutra (via oceanofmind) (via americansatori)Posted on January 10, 2010
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“Kinkara are special Dharma Protectors for practitioners of Heruka and Vajrayogini. They are emanations of Heruka and Vajrayogini who emanate as skeletons. This appearance of being devoid of flesh symbolizes that enlightened beings are completely free from self-cherishing.” (from the website)
They remind me (in a free-associating, obvious kind of way) of the Yi Jing hexagram 23, Stripping the Corpse. Unadorned, stripped right down. Even the thangka has a minimal, empty quality to it.
Posted on January 6, 2010 with 1 note
Writer, wilderness rites of passage guide, storyteller, lurcher-walker, forest-roamer, stargazer, bread-baker, poem-speaker and life-lover. Also grows potatoes.
