Monthly Archives: August 2012

from one ridge
they call for a time and stop—
frogs
hito aze wa
shibashi naki yamu
kawazu kana
Mukai Kyorai

Inoue Shiro (1742-1812), Moon and Mountain. Ink on paper, 31 x 50 cm.
From...

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad. But we could be more...

Everything in the phenomenal world is a footprint of Buddha, including the basic spaced-out experience we might feel. We also have the sense of relating with every detail in life...

At present we have this rare and good human life of freedom and fortune, but it won’t last forever. We are certain to die and don’t know when. At death...

The doctrines of emptiness and selflessness do not imply the non-existence of things. Things do exist. When we say that all phenomena are void of self-existence, it does not mean...