About Zen
Buddhist and non-Buddhist religions, lay stress on scriptural authority, that is holy books, writings, and doctrine. But Zen denounces all this on the grounds that words or characters can never …
Mike’s Alexa Skills on Amazon
All FREE – if you have not seen these – here are my four active skills you can check out if you have an Alexa Echo device and these topics …
Flexibility In the Spiritual Journey
The spiritual journey, if it requires anything at all, requires flexibility.
Learning and Doing
To learn and then do. Is that not a pleasure? Confucius.
Pure Experience
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it, has enough of truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Cup of Tea – by The Book
Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory …
The Things We Love
We love the things we love, for what they are. Robert Frost.
3rd Chinese Patriarch of Zen
“The Great Way (The Tao) is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, …