Sunday, June 15, 2025

Truth: In 100 Words or Less

Do not search for the Truth;
only cease to cherish opinions.
Chien-chih Seng-ts' an

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Zen Story: Mind Moves

 Two men were arguing about a flag flapping in the wind.


Prayer Flags - Nepal

It's the wind that is really moving, stated the first one.

Monday, May 19, 2025

Who Is My Neighbor?

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, 
and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. 

 
But who is my neighbor? 

Monday, May 12, 2025

Zen Story: Make Peace with Not Knowing

Fear and anxiety may often indicate that we are moving in a positive direction,
out of the safe confines of our comfort zone and in the direction of our true purpose. Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life


Monday, May 5, 2025

Monday, April 14, 2025

Zen Story: Without Fear

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality.
Cowards can never be moral.
Mahatma Gandhi


Monday, March 17, 2025

The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Crying Fight

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky. It was first published by Pocket Books on February 1, 1999.

(pdf here)

Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb.

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Zen Story: Worry

 Death was walking toward a city one morning. 

A man asked, “What are you going to do there?”  

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Nirvana: On a Roller Coaster

This girl I was seeing. We had conflicting attitudes. I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive. - Stephen Wright

White Cyclone Wooden Roller Coaster in Japan