March 29, 2025 The Buddha said, “Growing up is the solution to all of our problems today–or any day.” And, if he didn’t say it, he would have said it if it had occurred to him, because all of his sayings that he did say can be reduced to growing up. Enlightenment, for instance, isContinue reading “Buddha Notes 01”
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Comments to Articles in Tricycle 04, 11/12/2024
01) Zen is what happened when Buddhism met Taoism. And taking this article as an example of Zen having more to do with Taoism than with Buddhism, where in Zen would we find anything remotely suggesting that we strive “to attain the state of Noble Tara”? Yet, we speak of “Zen Buddhism” and not “ZenContinue reading “Comments to Articles in Tricycle 04, 11/12/2024”
Comments Made To Articles in Tricycle 05, 12/28/2024
01) Putting pain in its place and keeping it there is a matter of seeing what we can get by with and being able to take “No” for an answer. I’ve been on cutches because of arthritic knees for 10 years, and allowing pain tell me what I can do and cannot do–and being fineContinue reading “Comments Made To Articles in Tricycle 05, 12/28/2024”
In Response to Tricycle Magazine Articles
Habitual Intuition Protest, renunciation, repudiation I think of pain as “the inability to function normally.” I think of Zen’s gift to Buddhism as “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” Taking the Buddha out of Buddhism leaves us with becoming who the Buddha was. By being the Buddha, not as the BuddhaContinue reading “In Response to Tricycle Magazine Articles”
Comments Made to Articles in Tricycle 03, 10/11/2024
01) I am glad to join the Buddha in not being a Buddhist, and to join the Christ in not being a Christian—and in being free of doctrine, dogma, dharma and able to to what is called for in each situation as it arises as those who are true to their original nature, their innateContinue reading “Comments Made to Articles in Tricycle 03, 10/11/2024”
Comments Made to Articles in Tricycle Magazine 01, 09/13/2024
01) The Buddhist approach is sooooo intellectual, logical, reasonable, left-brained, my mind-body recoils in revolt to the very idea. What becomes of “go with the flow”? Of spontaneity? Of intuition? Here’s one for you: There is no path! There is no journey! There is no destination! There is only ONLY doing what is called forContinue reading “Comments Made to Articles in Tricycle Magazine 01, 09/13/2024”
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