The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics (review)
Zen Buddhists take refuge in the Buddha, in the Dharma, and in the Sangha. These terms can be more easily understood as “realization, truth, and harmony.” Dharma may be seen as a cosmic law of cause and effect, of one thing depending on another thing depending on another thing, within “the infinite, dynamic web of endless dimensions.” When expressed, this law is karma. Nothing is independent, but rather, intimate in relations. Everything exists in the context of something els
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way (review)
Your teacher will be there when you are ready to accept the teaching. When you are truly ready, there will be no teacher. As you open yourself to what is, you will leave behind yourself. The more you try to be someone, the more the opposite reveals itself. Rather than lecture on how to be or not be, be and not be. Without any expectation of praise or reward, without seeking to become, you already are. There is no need to show off. There is no need to pretend to be favorable o
love is a pathless land
Jiddu Krishnamurti, a world-renowned philosopher and teacher, said that truth is a pathless land. He considered truth to be unconditioned, limitless, unorganized, free of coercion and tradition and ideologies. Often, people try to organize their understanding into a system, into a creed, into dogma, and impose what they think they know on other people. Those who absolutely believe are stuck in their ideas of truth more than knowing any truths. They’re trapped in their subserv
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (Review)
Out of all the books I’ve read, this is the only one to give me nightmares. Out of nightmares, I heard: You lived for thousands of years, alive with flowing rivers and the annual hunt, eating from plants grown on rich soil and plucking fruits from trees. Respect for the spirit of the land lingers in your breath, in your ancestral bones. Your blood from the Great Spirit flows in you as it does in Eagle, Buffalo, and Elk. Blood as old as mountains and yellow plains, as timeless
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