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No Justice No Peace?

No Justice No Peace?

We are still having trouble with the blog. I can post again, but when you (or I, or anyone else) try to log in to comment it doesn’t work. We’re getting that fixed. For now, I decided it’s better to start posting again than to keep waiting. If you want to comment on this, you […]

We’re Back!

The blog has been down for a few days. You could view it but I couldn’t post anything new and I believe commenting was disabled as well. We did this because we were moving the site to a new server. That’s been done now. So you won’t be seeing those scary warning messages that the […]

Person of No Rank

One day Zen Master Rinzai (Ch. Lin-chi) said, “There is a true man of no rank (無位眞人) in the mass of naked flesh , who goes in and out from your facial features. Those who have not yet testified, look, look!” A monk came forward and said, “Who is this true man of no rank?” Master […]

Money

A reader recently asked me to write about money. Since I just finished doing my taxes a couple days ago it seemed like a reasonable theme to write about. I’ve written about topics involving money before, quite recently even. But I’m not sure I’ve written a whole lot about money itself. Talking about the Buddhist attitude […]

THANK YOU!

It’s April 15th and, as usual, I waited till the last possible day to do my taxes. For the last few years, ever since I added the donation button to this blog, I have had to go to my PayPal account at tax time and figure out how much I received in the previous year […]