The Six Perfections and Thanksgiving.
You Are What You Are And You Ain’t What You Ain’t
Life’s Limitations and Boundlessness, are they the same or different?
Not So and the Great Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra
Beyond the algorithms of delusion.
Legacy of The Record of Linji
Linji’s Enduring Influence in Ordinary Zen Sangha Practice. https://licentiapoetica.com/legacy-of-the-record-of-linji-bc1cf909190d
Beyond Thinking, Rising Above Duality
Our upcoming Retreat is on November 15, 2025. Opening the hand of thought to the natural attributes of compassion, intuition, and the wisdom of our original nature.
In Your Life, How Is Meditation Practice Relevant?
Why do we meditate?
No Self and The Immoveable Mountain
Practice is continuous, Mountains are Mountains, and Rivers are Rivers.
Compassionate Mind
Beyond Thinking Is Compassionate Mind.
Beyond Ideas
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, The world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other Doesn’t make any sense. –Rumi Picking up the pieces As I get ready to head back to Sarasota from Asheville, North Carolina, on the first anniversary of Hurricane Helene, I am humbled to see how a gentle river of humanity has risen […]
Mountains and Streams
The middle way isn’t about reaching the mountain top. Wherever you put your foot down, you are home.