Picking off from last time. Huh? Who were you talking to there? Ohhh…nobody. Nobody at all. Ummmm….ok. Now I’ll go through the five key concepts one by one. Please forgive me for not going into too much detail, as this’ll just be a big picture explanation.
What is Zen in a nuthsell? This is it. Huh? Just take a moment to stop and rest in this moment as it is. Without meddling. Without interference. Without commentary. Without longing for it to be any different. This is it. I kind of get it. It’s just this…
Germanic tribes launch devastating raid after devastating raid into your lands. Whole families are pressed into slavery. Women raped and slaughtered. Children left abandoned for dead. Decades worth of agriculture, up in smokes. You try to defend against them, but they remain elusive or, when met in pitched battle, overwhelm
GG Allin was Dionysus in flesh. He shat on concert goers. Smashed bottles over his head. Punched fans in the face and started melees. He shoved a banana up his ass on stage - but, don't worry, that was only after throwing slurs and furniture at the college kids
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
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.
