I want to return again to the ever-sharp Takuan Soho on the question of what to put first: virtue or life. In one set of his now famed letters, he dedicates an entire letter to the question, approaching it in a variety of unique and cutting ways. One of the
One of my all time Zen favs is The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho, the great Rinzai master of the 16th century. The book consists of a series of letters exchanged between Master Takuan and a warrior, Yagyu Munenori. This book introduced me to the idea of seamless being. This
About a decade ago, I was dragged to the mandatory Christmas mass with the folks. I hated it. My brother, cousins, and I spent most of it finding ways to entertain ourselves until it got to the good part: the end. Mostly that consisted of a sustained guerrilla campaign of
Daniel Day-Lewis' famed for not only his performance on the screen, but also the process behind it. And while it might seem esoteric or lofty, it offers and testifies to a much needed alternative to the normal ways of being most of us are so accustomed to.
