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I started out as a vegetarian, because that was easy for me at the time. Decades later-- having learned how to grind nuts to make milk, half a dozen way to replace eggs, how to cook 100s of different… (View Post)
NB for other readers, esoteric = tantra = shingon = vajrayana (roughly, close enough for this forum post) This Shingon center in California combines Esoteric and Zen. Ref: http://www.daikokuji.us/mik… (View Post)
Buddhism doesn't strike me as past-re-enactment, nor Luddite-ism, nor "Eastern Amish", nor any ancient Chinese-like yearning for ancient long past time when things were better. You can clin… (View Post)
Paradoxical intent sounds like a recipe for making smokers, alcoholics, people with eating problems, gambling problems, and so on. Consumption beyond what you'd desire is opening up the possibility o… (View Post)
On the internet, no one knows if you are a dog zen master. (Or is that possibility precluded? I still don't understand the koan. Mumu is a dress for large people.) (View Post)