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"Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another." ~His Holiness The Dalai Lama Technorati Tags: Buddha Buddhist Buddhism Meditation Dharma

With palms together, Good Morning Everyone, The sun is not yet awake in this part of the world, although I have faith that the burning globe will seem to rise over the mountains in the east and spread its warmth out over all of us. Our perception is simply not to be trusted. We think the earth is spinning around the sun and the sun is spinning around in the galaxy and the galaxy is spinning around in the universe, but that spinning itself is just a result of our perception, which is to say, how our brain functions. Spinning is an artifact of our perception. It only is because we see one thing in relation to another thing, that we see movement at all. Thus, sitting in my chair writing to you I feel stationary, and on this mornings walk, I will feel I am moving. Yet, I know this is not the case. Movement and lack of movement are in my minds eye. So, while we often say everything changes, because of this, we can just as easily say nothing changes. In the relative world, everything is in ...

skip to main | skip to sidebar ZenDotStudio Bits of zen flotsam & jetsam from the daily practice of a zen fool with shards of modern Buddhist art from my studio. Sometimes cranky, sometimes inspiring, mostly entertaining. Saturday, October 29, 2011 Falling Deeply & Bathing The Brain I am the one with the lovely grey coat and the blue accessoriesHere is one the beings I had the good fortune to meet at the bottom of my driveway as I headed out for a little stroll in the woods last week. Is it synchronistic that Eeyore appears to remind me of my eeyoreness? I have been slipping effortlessly through the time and space of this planet, riding ferry boats, delivering people to train stations, sharing water with the rain, listening to wise people talk. Right now I am sitting in a high-ceilinged coffee shop in a seaside town, watching cars glide through a foggy intersection. A lick of butterscotch light flashes methodically atop a stop sign....

With palms together, Good MorningEveryone, The universe is not large.The tip of your finger is not small. Largeand small are ideas we bring to our perception. Let go of large and small, hotand cold, good and bad, and the tip of your finger, just as the universe itself,has no limits. Be well.

"We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity. That the happiness of one person or nation is the happiness of humanity." ~His Holiness The Dalai Lama Technorati Tags: Buddha Buddhist Buddhism Meditation Dharma

Editors note : This is a guest post from Courtney Carver of Be More with Less. I never thought I would laugh at how busy I used to be. I was serious about my ability to be superwoman. I could work 40+ hours a week, raise a child, volunteer when anyone asked, exercise, travel, cook, and clean. I could do it all, and then some. Everyone was doing it all, so I did too. I didnt want to do it all. Doing it all made me exhausted. Doing it all cost me friendships. Doing it all cost me my health. My busyness wasnt even a little bit silly. Becoming less busy was not an accident, but a decision I made on purpose. I made the decision that a busy life wasnt a life for me. Being a good person, loving wife, mother and friendthat was the life I wanted. Next to that, I wanted the freedom to do things that made my heart sing instead of things that weighed me down. Until I intentionally left a life of chronic busyness, I couldnt see how silly it really was. The silliness of busyness is that sometimes yo...

Dangerous Harvests Writings about zen Buddhism, yoga, social justice and politics, the arts, and life in general. Thursday, October 27, 2011 Social Dukkha - Addressing Suffering on a Global Scale Working with people from all over the world, whose ideas and ways of living are often very different from my own, has definitely helped t! o jar th e sense of self I have. In addition, the discussions I have had with these same learners in my classes have shown me as much as anything how constructed our views of the good life or proper life are. Heres a simple example of that from a recent class: A woman originally from Somalia is pregnant, which sparked a discussion about family size and also happiness. She was asked by another learner how many children she would like to have. I believe she said maybe four although I may be misremembering that number. Another woman, a very joyful Ethiopian woman in her fifties, asked, Why not more? She went on to talk ...