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I just found out that Joseph Campbell, the man whose writings initially turned me on to myth and the transcendent, spent five months in Japan in 1955!  The Joseph Campbell foundation recently published some of his journal writings from that period.  For those of you who have never read anything by Joseph Campbell, please get ahold [...]

There is something intriguing about the feeling of exposure that weblogs can engender, both in those who blog and in those with whom the blogger interacts in everyday life.  It can cause us to suddenly become self-conscious, and can lead to a closer examination of our thoughts and actions.  As bloggers we ask ourselves questions like: ”Is this way [...]

To seek is to suffer.  To seek nothing is bliss.

This saying from The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma (Red Pine, 1989) is often misinterpreted to mean that we shouldn’t make any effort, but rather sit back and do nothing, which isn’t really accurate. By all means we should be active, but in the midst of that [...]