When I was young and insulted, I would sing, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me! That self-protective retort was used on those unfortunate occasions where somebody’s words had actually hurt me. The rhyme is a great tool that can help children differentiate between physical and emotional harm. It’s wonderful to…
Read MoreWhen I started blogging in 2012, I was so excited by my zen practice that I wanted to let everybody know how to access a sense of inner peace. I started blogging on tumblr, which, if your not familiar with it, it is a social media platform, that lets people interact anonymously, through avatars, sharing…
Read MoreAnnatta, the idea that there is no self, is a different way of thinking about yourself. The way you see yourself now is wrong. You have ideas about what you are that include all kinds of things that aren’t you and exclude lots of other things that are you. We strongly identify our bodies with…
Read MoreZen teaching, the Dharma, passes from teacher to student, person to person, and has done so since the time of the Buddha, roughly 2,500 years ago. What each teacher passes to each student is a way of seeing things differently. The way we see things, with our eyes, with our minds, with our ears, can…
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