"In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky...

“Worrying about the future means living in denial about the fundamentally uncertain nature of life.” (medium.com) I got a bike Saturday,...

We set up Seonbang (meditation room) in one large room upstairs of the farmhouse. Daily morning service starts at 6 am with Wakeup...

The story of Rip Van Winkle, published in 1819 by American writer Washington Irving, tells the tale of Rip Van Winkle who lived in the...

On a walk along the creek in mid-January, we found a deer laying on the island. We wondered how the deer got to the island because the...

Asian Writings on the Simple Life, translated by Burton Watson "And now that I have come to be master of the house, I gaze up at the...

At the Zen Buddhist Temple in Toronto we have been reading together David Hinton's Existence: A Story. "... meditation returns us to the...