Arjuna is a warrior prince and Krishna is a symbol of the divine in the Bhagavad Gita, a holy book from India. “Krishna exhorts Arjuna to combat. This is the first lesson: Life is a battle—you must enter into it fully, and do what needs to be done. You cannot shrink from your duty. Life […]
The Taoist Writer: Creating Soul
You ask me why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom. The water flows. –Li Po (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, […]
No-Path is the Path
On Non-Dependence of Mind Coming, going, the waterbirds don’t follow a trace, don’t follow a path. –Dogen (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, p.50) No-Trace “Dogen Kigen (1200-1253) [was a] Japanese Zen Master, philosopher, poet, painter [and the] founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan . . . […]
When I was the Forest
When I was the stream, when I was the forest, when I was still the field, when I was every hoof, foot, fin and wing, when I was the sky itself, no one ever asked me did I have a purpose, no one ever wondered was there anything I might need, for there was […]