Jane Hirshfield: “Wrong solitude vinegars the soul”
March 16th, 2014 | by msalt
There are few American writers more criminally under-appreciated than poet Jane Hirshfield. A student of Zen, and a graduate of [&hellip
The Modern Axis of Buddhist Hate
March 10th, 2014 | by msalt
Ideology is perhaps man’s most deadly invention. And while we have stereotypes of “good” and “bad” ideologies (Islam = “warlike,” [&hellip
Poems After Drinking Wine (#5)
March 5th, 2014 | by msalt
How can you find meditative quiet in a busy city? The Taoist poet T’ao Ch’ien (365 – 427 C.E.) knows. [&hellip
DISCOVERED:
A lost section of the Tao Te Ching
March 2nd, 2014 | by msalt
What is below is soil, but we call it ‘earth’. What is above is vapor, but we call it ‘heaven’. [&hellip
New (Ancient) Texts of the Tao Te Ching (Daodejing)
February 20th, 2014 | by msalt
Last summer I wrote an post about a new edition of the Daodejing that had been found in China. It [&hellip
A Rhyming Tao Te Ching
February 18th, 2014 | by msalt
It’s not cool to rhyme any more, even in poetry. (Songs still get an exemption for some reason.) So it’s [&hellip
Heroic Medicine (and the damage done)
February 12th, 2014 | by msalt
We’ve had two reminders this week of how messed up the American medical system is. Not the insurance and financing [&hellip
Your Own Private Tao of Idaho
February 6th, 2014 | by msalt
“The Tao of the Palouse” is a short (8 minute) documentary about a Daoist hermitage in rural Idaho. (The Palouse [&hellip
Human Waves
January 30th, 2014 | by msalt
Waves are a classic natural phenomenon; why else would you thrown a rock in the water? That makes it all [&hellip
The greatest sports upset ever
November 30th, 2013 | by msalt
Great sports games don’t exist in a vacuum. Your memory of the epic win mingles with some indefinable stage of [&hellip
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