only one koan matters you –Ikkyu Ikkyu (1394-1481) was a Japanese Zen master and wandering poet. “. . .[Ikkyu] developed street Zen, out of the monastery and into the living reality of laypeople. . . . To really wake up you have to step out of the cloistered sacred and be in the midst of […]
Serve the World
“If we take up the ideal of being servants of the world, rather than creators, we may find a path toward self-knowledge and a middle way that serves all of humanity and the earth’s inhabitants We may not be ‘great’ in the sense of superiority to others but rather in the humble greatness of openhearted […]
I am the Wind
I am the wind that moves my pen across the page I am the wind that blows letters into words I am the wind that falls like a waterfall off my mountain mind Bringing the scent of lilacs to the valley below –Terry Chitwood A Living Connection This poem is an expression of Celtic thought […]
Stories Save Us
“In the words of novelist James Carroll, ‘We tell stories because we can’t help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence that death imposes. We tell stories because they save us’” (Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life by Frederic […]
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