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Fosdick·in its eye are mirrored far off mountains·Veteran
Get a bug and use it as the focus of your meditation. Look at it closely. Such marvelous little beings, so tiny and yet so complete, so perfect. You cannot hate them if you do this. They interrupt an… (View Post)
We are at exponentially greater risk of being injured or killed by another human than we are of being injured or killed by a snake, and animals do indeed have their place in the world - which is very… (View Post)
Or, one could also take this old chestnut as being, not advice, but a koan for the non-Buddhist. It points directly to oneself. The first time I encountered it, 50 or maybe even 60 years ago, my imme… (View Post)
I always believed in God, although my rather vague concept was more along the lines of something like Tao, rather than the proprietary and narrowly defined gods that were, and are, the stock in trade… (View Post)