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Libraries build a bridge to the past.
Image from RCPL’s Flickr stream: This uprooted home was caught by the trees that once provided shade for it. A footbridge in the distance now carries golfers across gentle Rapid Creek. As communities...
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Life in six words.
Born in rain. Still tracking mud. Image: Muddy Footprints by J. Ronlad Lee from a scupture by Fred Conlon.
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Summer Reading Flow Chart
I am not one to get into infographics but I liked this one… Congrats! Here is a picture of a buddha reading. No reason for it other than I like it.
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*A Defense of Minimalist Fiction in 100 words*
Minimalist style is ensconced in the short story. While the short story is hardly different from other forms, it is more concentrated, less broad with a lean feel. There’s a disparate rhythm that...
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Run, Roshi, Run! [in four stanzas]
1) Alas, Old Zen family man,Who doesn’t sit, pray or chantWhich isn’t to say he can’tbut he would rather be contentand enjoy the current moment,than formulate another spiritual plan. 2) Hey! Old Zen...
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Kalama Sutta The Buddha’s Charter of Free Inquiry
It is proper for you to doubt, to be uncertain; uncertainty has arisen in you about what is doubtful. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing;nor upon tradition;nor upon rumor;nor...
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The Dharma is an open country.
“Buddhism doesn’t tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.” ~ Chogyam Trungpa #emaho #buddhism (quote via Bill Schwartz) This is how every religion should...
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Off the Shelf: July 2012 ~ The Tiger’s Wife and Magical Realism
Our “Off the Shelf” book club discussion will be on The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht. After the last meeting when I was blasted with questions concerning the genre we discussed and similar titles, I...
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These koans…
Koans are flexible. They are metaphors we can take in our hands. They form in between the spaces where we apply pressure – a fist of emptiness. Koans expand into those closed off, open cracks. We tense...
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