Mountain, without & within
The physical fields of great austerities have been the desert and the mountains. Both physical contexts remove society and the ego but in different ways, throug...
The physical fields of great austerities have been the desert and the mountains. Both physical contexts remove society and the ego but in different ways, throug...
The early Christian desert hermits said very little about the desert as geography or physical locale. The physical context of solitude and a sense of the absolu...
American expatriate writer and composer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) once wrote a little travel essay titled “Baptism of Solitude.” The essay describes w...
A famous koan of The Book of Serenity titled “Dizang Planting the Fields” is prefaced by this setting: the 9th century Chan master Guichen, called &...