Monthly Archive: September 2008

Vittaka – initial application (connect) Vicara – sustained application (sustain) Five Jhana Factors see also Dharma Lists

the wabi, the country gnarliness Can we say that wabi-sabi is a postmodern form? Perhaps, if you think, with Lyotard, that there is postmodernism present in every age. However, I like seeing the postmodern...

Commentary on poet & nasturtiums: Philip [Whalen] was fond of these, particularly the orange flowering nasturtium. No one had any money; we didn’t have a vase. We had a mayonnaise jar, and we filled...

the equinox petroglyph project In October of 2006, one of the most sacred and well-documented sites of ancient petroglyphs on the eastern seaboard of the United States was returned to its original peoples, the...