Plain or Sugar Kōan?
I want to thank Rev. Dosho for his interesting post (see: Dogen and Koan: The Ultimate Truly Definitive Unquestionable Smoking Gun). He is of course quite right that fundamentally, there isn’t any...
View Article‘What did Dogen teach, anyway?’ A reply to T. Griffith Foulk
In a recently-published volume entitled “Dōgen and Sōtō Zen”, there appears essay by T. Griffith Foulk, “Dōgen’s Use of Rujing’s ’Just Sit’ and other Kōans”, given pride-of-place as the first essay in...
View ArticleA Lengthy Courtship
The recent Supreme Court decision making same-gender marriage legal in all fifty states took some of us who aren’t Court-watchers by surprise. As I remember wrestling with coming out in the late...
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