Tai Sheridan’s Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life is a compact spiritual text—112 pages in its Kindle edition, first published in 2012—that belongs to the tradition of aphoristic devotional writing, yet it aims less at doctrine than at psychic and ethical recalibration. Goodreads describes it as a work that addresses “what is unsettled within you” … Continue reading T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life by Tai Sheridan
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover
Thomas Hoover’s The Zen Experience stands as a seminal introduction to the rich tapestry of Zen Buddhism, weaving together historical narrative, doctrinal exposition, and primary texts with a clarity that belies the profundity of its subject. First published in 1969 and later revised, Hoover’s work occupies a unique space between scholarly monograph and accessible anthology, inviting both … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover
Baby Buddha in the Wabi Sabi Garden
Last summer I completed the infrastructure for a zen garden for my wife. This little Buddha found itself well placed under my dwarf Japanese maple tree. It got quickly enveloped by some ground hostas, so I moved it this year to sit on a rock near the water fountain I rigged from a reclaimed cement … Continue reading Baby Buddha in the Wabi Sabi Garden
SUCHNESS
I'm reading another book on Zen and it loves to use the terms "muchness" & "is-ness" to describe the state of being while not-doing. While thinking about this drawing, I couldn't figure out what it was, much less what it was trying to do or say. It just was what it was. So be it! … Continue reading SUCHNESS
The New Renaissance Mindset 