A few nights ago I was driving home from a get-together with some friends and found myself alone on some dark road in upstate New York.  As I was going over the events of the past couple of weeks (a friend had been visiting, on leave from Iraq), I noticed a particular feeling or emotion. I examined this feeling.  It presented...
Read more »

As long as there is a ‘you’ doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, ‘meditating’ or ‘not-meditating’ you are no closer to home than the day you were born. - “The Tenth Man” by Wei Wu Wei
Read more »

I normally would be upset at my brother-in-law for his latest behavior, but things are different now. You see, he’s what a lot of people (including myself) might call rude, inconsiderate and self-absorbed. He and I have come to blows in the past and there’s no doubt that those experiences have colored our relationship, so I’m certainly not objective....
Read more »

A desert spread out from horizon to horizon.  The blending of reds, browns and yellows of the sand and rocks melded together in a distant grayish purple that colored the mountains that sat on the distant horizon.  The mountains, themselves, where sharp, jagged and severe – like earth teeth set to gnaw the luscious blue and cloudless sky above. From the...
Read more »

I had an amusing experience the other night.  I was excited to get home and sit zazen.  I put aside all my other “stuff” and decided that I was just going to make time for sitting.  I love zazen and I sit frequently (usually twice a day for twenty minutes) and having some time when there was nothing else going on really...
Read more »