BEATING THE POISONED DRUM

Sawaki Roshi said once: “Try to have a fight with your spouse while you have your hands in gassho – you won’t be able to do it!” —  Antaji

“What from the standpoint of Chan religious practice may be absolutely essential becomes, from the standpoint of intellectual analysis, the passive submission to a hegemony, the unwitting contraction of an intellectual pathology.” – John R McRae

Some people’s minds are filled with doubt and vacillation, doubting that they can ever come to certainty , and they waste their lives by repeatedly traveling to many lands. Some are carried away by viewing their teacher’s counsel as being wrong, and they fall into false views. Others take their own meditative practice to be […]

“Grievances dull the conscience.” – Dennis Prager, June 6 2019

Sakra: If someone, holy Subhuti, would make efforts about this perfection of wisdom, what would his efforts be about? Subhuti: He would make efforts about space. And he would make his efforts about a mere vacuity if he would decide to train in perfect wisdom or to work on it.

Without the poetic overapplication of structure, how will the good little Rinzai ghosts survive?

A tradition advertising itself as “outside the scriptures” and “pointing directly at the mind” had better honor its promise and point.

The desperate stupidity of early practice is also the most beautiful display of self-compassion.

Beware the sangha that devolves into “Why don’t you – yes but”.

Refuse to be full of shit.