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Happy Enlightenment Day!

Sitting zazen like diligent Shakyamuni under the Bodhi tree. Drop your self and be! Suffering and fear fade away. This is Enlightenment Day. Continue

Added by Guy Malkerson on December 8, 2009 at 7:02am — No Comments

The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin

Greetings Bodhisattvas of Creativity, Want to give a recommendation to you. I’ve been reading a wonderful book called ‘The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin’ by Katsuhiro Yoshizawa. It’s full of Dharmic images by Hakuin coupled with studious commentary about the subject matter of his work. Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769) used painting as a practice and a teaching device (expedient means). His subject matter included prostitutes, Bodhisattvas, pissing pike men, Bodhidharma, performers and the colourf… Continue

Added by Guy Malkerson on December 4, 2009 at 7:59am — No Comments

darkweb 'the free rider solution' You cannot guarantee freedom of speech and enforce copyright law

Creatives will need a new business model Interesting article in the Guardian today about the 'Deep Web' and darkweb facilitated by Ian Clarkes Freenet software see: http://freenetproject.org Where he is basically saying to have a free society, democracy, you cannot enforce copyright, so that we need a new business model where creative get paid in a different way. Radioheads 'free' downlaod of an albumm is an example of a different way of doing things, th… Continue

Added by jyoti on November 26, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Ledbury Zazen

A red spire smoulders from St. Michael's sanctuary while buried below suppressed waters of Cyriath flow. Sitting samadhi fused causation incense dissapates. Continue

Added by Guy Malkerson on November 22, 2009 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Something Understood ~ Words My Mother Taught Me

Something Understood LISTEN AGAIN for 5 days: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nnmsl/Something_Understood_Words_My_Mother_Taught_Me/ Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry Pamela Marre, a storyteller from a non-orthodox Jewish family, looks at how ancient… Continue

Added by jyoti on November 10, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

Poem: "Proverbial Ballade" by Wendy Cope from Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. © Faber & Faber. Proverbial Ballade Fine words won't turn the icing pink; A wild rose has no employees; Who boils his socks will make them shrink; Who catches cold is sure to sneeze. Who has two legs must wash his knees; Who breaks the egg will find the yolk; Who locks his door will need his keys— So say I and so say the folk. You can't shave with a tiddlywinks, Nor make red wine from garden pea… Continue

Added by jyoti on November 10, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Another Buddhist Meal Blessing

As well as being a wonderful opportunity to practice mindfulness, meals also provide us with the teaching of interconnectedness. What a gift it is to have a meal! How many countless beings, sentient and insentient, provide food for us? When eating an apple compassion is manifesting itself. A seed, sun, rain and earth grew the tree (worms were covered in the previous blog blessing). Somehow the apple has been brought to us, most probably by several people. When does the apple cease to be an ap… Continue

Added by Guy Malkerson on November 5, 2009 at 9:29pm — No Comments

Fiddling

5 pm: the loch's waves are doing a steeplechase and I'm outside the toilet staring at the door, deciding if it's best left on the latch or open. 5.10: sunlight turns the grass to diamonds clasped in silver - and I'm hovering over a notebook: Should I write these thoughts down now, or later? 5.20: the black clouds gathering like angry vampires over the mountains and the rain stabbing the windows find me scratching the back of my head, which itches, wondering what's for dinner. Continue

Added by Dharmavadana on November 4, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

I'll never be

I'll never be a Poet poet, never mount a claim on the Oxford Book of Modern Verse. But it's this simple: the loch's waves are in a horse race and the trees are their cheering crowd - and I had to say I'd seen it, I had to say I'd been there. Continue

Added by Dharmavadana on November 4, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Drama

A housemartin divebombs the cat three times So much ambition in that dram of life Continue

Added by Dharmavadana on November 3, 2009 at 11:21pm — 3 Comments

"Me," "Myself," and "I"

"Me," "Myself," and "I" Holding to an ordinary notion of self, or ego, is the source of all our pain and confusion. The irony is that when we look for this "self" that we're cherishing and protecting, we can't even find it. - Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche, from "Searching for Self,” Tricycle, Summer 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-U1nTLWw http://www.yout… Continue

Added by jyoti on November 3, 2009 at 11:44am — No Comments

The Method to Ryokan's Great Foolishness

Looking down Like a scarecrow I'm not there Just ragged clouds Like a scarecrow I look down I see ragged clouds I'm not there, am i? Continue

Added by jyoti on November 2, 2009 at 2:49pm — No Comments

How to be a Poet ~ The Icelandic saga of Njorl

I had to laugh when I read how Auden nearly put Alan Bennett off writing!!! "When Auden outlined what he took to be the prerequisites of a literary life, or at any rate a life devoted to poetry, I was properly dismayed. Besides favourite books, essential seemed to be a literary landscape (Leeds?), a knowledge of metre and scansion and (this was the clincher) a passion for the Icelandic sagas. If writing meant passing this kind of kit inspection, I'd better forget it.… Continue

Added by jyoti on November 2, 2009 at 2:40pm — No Comments

Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves...

“Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. There lies simplicity, happiness and peace.” -Matthieu Ricard Continue

Added by jyoti on October 29, 2009 at 7:48pm — No Comments

Tantra and Troubadours | Lily Allen: Music and Sexual Alchemy

Tantra and the Music Business: a load of old Bauls... Music as a spiritual path. The Ballad Of Britain A Musical Journey Sex, music and the spiritual path have a long and sacred history. I believe it was AN Wilson who showed that the medieval peripatetic troubadours were actually Sufi Tantric practitioners, '...a tantric cult existed in Provence at the time of the Troubadours' using the unrequited love to pump the kundalini up the spine to their crown chakras, and its no a… Continue

Added by jyoti on October 29, 2009 at 12:02pm — 1 Comment

Buddhist Meal Blessing

Meals are wonderful opportunites for Buddhist practice. Meal time can offer a unique opportunity to understand interconnectness. Here's a meal blessing I wrote for those frequent occassions: This meal appears for many reasons, from buzzy bees to nature's seasons . . . long lovely worms never ceasing, have churned the earth, ever releasing - nutrients to grow farmer's seeds, may it nuture us like old growth trees! With blissful gratitude we deeply bow, actualising and engaging the boundless Tao! Continue

Added by Guy Malkerson on October 28, 2009 at 11:34am — 1 Comment

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