Shambhala Blog

I try to practice what I preach; I’m not always that good at it, but I really do try. The other night, I was getting hard-hearted, closed-minded, and fundamentalist about...

don’t be like me
even if we resemble
two halves of a melon

ware ni niru na
futatsu ni wareshi
makuwauri

(Basho, 1690)

From The Art of Haiku: Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters...

Aggression is an obstacle to visual dharma, to hearing and the other sense perceptions, and to understanding reality in its fullest sense. To overcome aggression, some kind of fundamental discipline...

There are three kinds of people [who practice Buddhism]. Like all other beings, the lowest person wants happiness and not suffering or rebirth in the lower realms of existence, so...

Zenga and shunga (erotic art)* would seem to be on different ends of the artistic spectrum. Zenga are created with a minimum of brush strokes in mostly black and white...