Recently, my cyber-friend Montucky tapped me for a ROAR award. Thank you, Terry! Now, the rules for being A Roar for Powerful Words recipient state that I must share three writing tips and pass the award on to three more bloggers worthy of recognition and esteem. When it comes to writing, I turn to “beginner’s [...]
Archive for the ‘Katagiri Roshi’ Category
“Roar…”
Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Inspiration, Instructions, Katagiri Roshi, Kerouac, Natalie Goldberg, Photo Canvases, Photography, Wholeness, Writing on January 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Joining the lineage…”
Posted in Katagiri Roshi, Photo Canvases, Photography, Wholeness, Writing, Zen on November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For those courageous souls who spent the day keeping their hands moving across the page, engaged in Writing Practice…I bow. You have joined the lineage of Zen Writers; backed by the tradition of Natalie Goldberg, Alan Ginsberg, Dainin Katagiri Roshi, Suzuki Roshi, Dogen, Jack Kerouac and others. I hope you’ll continue under all circumstances…sitting, writing, [...]
“Stand at the threshold…”
Posted in Dad, Inspiration, Instructions, Katagiri Roshi, Neil Douglas Klotz, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Prayers, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I am awake early…savoring the morning light while it lasts; acclimating to the dark afternoon. Yesterday, the maples behind the house were still green…this morning they are yellow and the wind has combed leaves off the hickory and catalpa trees. The temperature is dropping and there are rumors of snow. At lunch time, [...]
‘Now lucid and lovely…”
Posted in Instructions, Katagiri Roshi, Photography, Poems, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Yoga on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight after Hatha Yoga, we have a Raja Yoga class. Last week’s “assignment” was to identify, reflect on and journal about our spiritual values and where and how we see them embodied in the world. We talk a bit about the resistance that some students have to journaling and the common considerations: TIME, EFFORT REQUIRED, [...]
“This moment…”
Posted in Inspiration, Instructions, Katagiri Roshi, Photo Canvases, Photography, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Yoga, Zen on September 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Gratitude. Humility. Non-attachment. Beginner’s mind. Empty mind. Sometimes not so empty mind. PENETRATING THE MOMENT: From You Have to Say Something Dogen said we must penetrate this moment, again and again, forever. This is the most important thing we can do. There is nothing to change, nothing to hold on to, nothing to get caught [...]
“Like waving images in the heat…”
Posted in Inspiration, Instructions, Katagiri Roshi, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Zen on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
FROM: YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY “Life and death are not two. Life and death constitute a single event. We usually don’t see life and death in this way. Instead, we imagine there is some space between them, like the space we imagine between ourselves and other things. This is ignorance…” “Life and death are [...]
“Wholeness needs you…”
Posted in Inspiration, Instructions, Katagiri Roshi, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Zen on July 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
FROM: YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY… “We don’t know how to deal with birth and death. We don’t know how to deal with a person who is going to die. We don’t know how to deal with our own mortality. Yet we must all face the reality of impermanence…” “People have a preconception that when [...]
“Silence is vast…”
Posted in Inspiration, Instructions, Katagiri Roshi, Listening, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Yoga, Zen on May 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Monday night Yoga and then meditation. We are deepening our practice and relationship with silence…we reflect on how silence serves us–cleanses, focuses, clarifies, restores balance and harmony…how we need it; crave it; experience discomfort in silence…how we fill our lives–with music; with talking; with radio; with television; with books, with blogs; with movies; with Internet; [...]
Life Through the Lens…
Posted in Inspiration, Katagiri Roshi, Listening, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, Wholeness, Zen on March 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Knowing that I will write; knowing that I will take at least one picture each day is changing my life…opening my awareness…altering my listening and how I digest my world. I pay attention to the light; I take myself to places I might not otherwise. I take pictures in my mind when I don’t have [...]
