Category: Buddhism

The Venerable Thien Hue

“I am a monk,” says Hue as imperturbably as ever. “I do nothing against the government. I live in silence and I pray. I have been in prison for two hundred days now, for no…

Are You Sure?

How often have we misperceived the situation, a look, a sound?  We need to be detached from our perceptions, because we are not infallible.   –Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

Word of the Day: Adhitthana

“Resolute determination, decision, unshakable resolve, vow, will … It represents the steadfast strength of mind essential for applying oneself to a specific end and the refusal to vacillate in the face of obstacles. ” –Mirka Knaster,…

Compelling

His voice was deep and resonant and somehow brave, like the voice of old-time American heroes and orators.  Something earnest and strong and humanly hopeful I liked about him, while the other poets were either…

Today’s One-Liner (#325)

I believe in Buddha kindness and nothing else, I believe in Heaven, in Angels, I eschew all Marxism and allied horseshit and psychoanalysis, and offshoot therefrom. –Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, January 1958

Today’s One-Liner (#287)

And of course, for your beginning studies of Buddhism, you must listen to me carefully and implicitly as tho I was Einstein teaching you relativity or Eliot teaching the Formulas of Objective Correlation on a…

From Antigone to Thich Nhat Hanh

Teach us to care and not to care…T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday Over the years when reading Sophocles’ Antigone, I tended to see her as the conscientious heroine, standing alone against her uncle Creon, the brutal…

Today’s One-Liner (#29)

In my mind there are three things: concentration, loving-kindness, and peace. –Dipa Ma, in Amy Schmidt, Dipa Ma: The Life and Teachings of a Buddhist Master