Thursday, May 31, 2018

On names, renaming and the unnameable.

On Saturdays, working on koans over coffee is a near-sacred act. On the surface, it’s a lot of contradiction: Joshu’s dog on the one hand, buddha nature on the other. They’re in tension until they aren’t, and the reality of the phrase “NOT TWO” ...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Orthomorphosis: An Effort to Say the Whole Word

I woke up early, ultimately stumbling to the coffee maker as opposed to trying to go back to sleep. I’ve too much on my mind. Lately I’ve been getting a sense of what the whole cosmic game is. It makes me more certain of the work that Under the ...
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Thursday, May 3, 2018

Koans and Care: The Dangers of Dualism

In a post about Adult Children of Alcoholics, (Steps 4-11: Cleaning House)I talked about how dualism perpetually befouls the bedsheets of recovery for me. I’m realizing, though, that recovery’s not the only thing dualism left disjointed in me. ...
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