Some while back I planned to write a detailed description of my path including all my…
While every teacher/guru insists, yes insists, that you need a personal guru or teacher…
Spring was hard. The hardest. For this late in his life spring brought so many earlier…
Approaching Death
Anapanazazen
From the “thinky” Tibetan ways to the utterly non-everything Japanese way: Zazen.
I’m including The Dao, or Tao, as part of my path not because I’ve actually practiced it per se, but…
Vedanta, which strictly speaking is not Buddhism, but Hinduism — although…
Yogacara
Buddhism did not head for Japan directly from India to there become Zen, it arrived via China, where…
Who hasn’t heard about Zen, one way or another? And I’m sure we all have our securely…
As with Vajrayana, as I kept reading what B. Alan Wallace wrote about Tibetan…
Again, by B. Alan Wallace invitation as it were, I could not help but come across…
When, as a child (or perhaps teenager by then) back home in Sweden, I first heard Buddhism…
Theravada means “The Teaching of the Elders,” or “The School of the Elders.”…
When, in the fall of 2007, I read that the first Jhana (a state of meditative absorption as…
