One of the best lessons I’ve ever had on Zen Buddhism came from Daido Roshi during a weekend at the Zen Mountain Monastery.  Daido was lecturing on many things and during this particular session he brought up food and the practice of eating. The majority of what he said could be “boiled down” to cabbage or cow, it doesn’t matter...
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Maybe if we can help each other escape the habit of fantasizing about things, escape the habit of creating illusions about what we are experiencing while we’re alive, we can move forward productively instead of relying on things that are not true (like a belief in saving / interactive god). We have this weird habit of looking outside ourselves...
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Who am I? I point to my chest, about where my heart is and I claim “I.” But imagine if I had a heart transplant and the doctors put a mechanical heart in there to replace the organic one. Now, pointing at my chest and affirming “I,” I would be pointing at a machine. My heart isn’t I. My...
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