Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Just keep in mind the feeling ‘I am’, merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on...
Author: Miles Murphy
On Losing My Head (and that’s a good thing!)
“Well my heart’s runnin’ round like a chicken with its head cut offAll around the barn yard falling in and out of lovePoor thing’s blind...
This is it! (It really is!)
“Not knowing how near the truth is, people seek it far away -what a pity! They are like him who, in the midst of water,...
Three Beats to the Bar
In 1958 Jack Kerouac wrote a semi-autobiographical novel entitled the “Dharma Bums”, loosely based around his early experiences of Buddhism, both in California and in...
Into the Void
Case number 46 of the Gateless Gate (a collection of Zen koans or puzzles) challenges us: “Master Sekiso said, ‘From the top of a pole...
Practice IS Perfect – The Truth According to Zen
One of the first things Buddhists ask each other upon meeting is, “Do you have a regular practice?” You see, the thing that distinguishes Buddhism...
Tell Me Who You Are
“You knock at the door of reality,shake your thought-wings, loosenyour shoulders,and open.” Rumi I sat before my partner, contemplating the instruction she had given me,...
Water and Ice
Down along the creek, a sudden thaw has broken the ice into thick blocks and here, where the creek widens and shallows, a heavy wind...
Everything is Burning
The clerk at the counter in the pharmacy was telling me that earlier in the day an elderly woman had presented a winning lottery ticket...
Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing
“Fa-yung lived in seclusion on Niu-t’ou Mountain. When Tao-hsin went there, Fa-yung offered to put him up in a spot behind his cave. On the...