Monthly Archives: December 2012

It is quite counterintuitive, quite upside down. What it is saying is: whatever happens, don't ever blame anyone or anything else, always blame only yourself. Eat the blame...

Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice...

Questions are like the first layer, like the skin of an onion. When you remove it, the answer is there. One finds that the answers are in us. So we...

Mahayana Buddhism is a vehicle with room enough for every one to get on board. One meaning of Zen is “all-embracing.” In Zen Buddhism, if something has great benefit to...

the coolness
of my feet against the wall—
midday nap
hiyahiya to
kabo wo fumaete
hirune kana
Basho
From The Art of Haiku: Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters by...