How To Be An American Monk, The Four Noble Ways |
Life is squeezing your gullet like a farmer's hand on a chicken dick. You're having a total character meltdown. You can't breathe, can't sleep, and you have no money. You cry alone in the corner at n...
Posted by Alien Zen Monk on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:47:00 PST |
The Fruits Of Silence |
If it occurs to us to fight with the world to escape poverty, it will occur to us to fight with the world to keep wealth. And in the middle we are like a boxer between rounds. Even though we are not ...
Posted by Alien Zen Monk on Fri, 11 May 2007 07:54:00 PST |
Science, Sin, Samsara |
We are dead leaves falling to the ground. We bump into each other, and looking below, we see the doom of impact. We don't understand how we developed such momentum, how we came to be floating in the ...
Posted by Alien Zen Monk on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:09:00 PST |
The Road Map Analogy |
Two men bump into one other at a fork in the road, each with his own map. The first man's map is written in fine ink, on ancient papyrus, neat rolled, as if the creator took great pains to make it be...
Posted by Alien Zen Monk on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:06:00 PST |
The Four Extremes and Reacting To Conflict |
These can be said to be existence, non-existence, both, and neither. Though it requires training, a person can learn to live beyond the four extremes while still alive as a physical human being. The ...
Posted by Alien Zen Monk on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:45:00 PST |
No Self Is Self |
There is a self.
When we say there is a self, to what are we referring? When we look with the eyes, we see the body, and we indicate it. Here it is. We can study it. We will arrive at a reasonable ag...
Posted by Alien Zen Monk on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:43:00 PST |
What is USO? |
USO stands for "Unidentified Spiritual Observer". It is an ancient mentality given to a state of spiritual openness. Alone it celebrates no tradition, not even itself, yet maintains the mental flexib...
Posted by Alien Zen Monk on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:32:00 PST |
