Month: May 2003
Detachment
Detachment as a spiritual or philosophical state is dependent upon one’s station, what could be called an “existential context.” The ancient C...
Bears are back!
The bears returned from “the north” yesterday. They spent a while, the three cubs climbing a pine tree to an enormous height (50, 60 feet?), while m...
Monastery barn’s burned …
I’ve been reading a lot of Thomas Merton lately, and came across his poem “Elegy for the Monastery Barn.” I guess I was attracted to the fire ...
Barn’s Burned …
I looked up the little Zen poem about the burned barn and the moon. It is by Masahide: “Barn’s burned / now I can see the moon.” Well, forest&...
“He shall live alone”
One of the starker decrees of culture is expressed in the biblical Leviticus 13: 46, concerning anyone with leprosy: “He shall live alone; his dwelling sh...