Ages ago, I was sat in a bar in Philly and talking with a Thai woman I kinda knew. For some reason the topic of conversation strayed onto Buddhism upon which she launched into a vitriolic diatribe outlining her intense hatred of Buddhism and the west’s romance with it. She was raised Buddhist and [...]
The one really good thing about working with artists is that if you are a bit of a wackjob like me, you don’t stand out so much. Artists invariably are wackjobs, or at the very least they appreciate wackjobs. It is for that reason that I was pleased to see L last night, because for [...]
All my struggles, my unceasing restlessness, came from one place - that I was unable to find any meaning in my life. That I felt my life was meaningless and that I did not know what to do that might make it meaningful. I have been searching, for as long as I can remember, to [...]
Finally, my lovely Rhome, I am coming to one of your myriad of questions from a few entries ago - “How do you make the dictaphone stop?” Quite frankly, you can’t, but what you can learn to do is control it and your response to it. “It is the nature of the mind to think”, [...]
Up until yesterday, I had stopped doing all forms of Zazen for about a week. Even the seated kind. I think I stopped a couple of days before I started the fast which was a week ago yesterday. I am not sure why really. I know I want to blame the manipulations and lies I [...]
A while ago Liz, (are you still reading..?), you said something on Silence that really bothered me in a way I was unable to articulate. “My only fear is the free liberated me would be then caged behind the walls of my own isolation - I am antisocial enough as it is.” All I could [...]
