So here’s another story about Bankai. One day he was sitting just ordinarily, quietly speaking with his disciples when a student from another sect showed up and said, “What sort of miracles can you do? My master can stand on one side of a river with a brush and write a holy name on a …
Jan 15 2023: Bankai's Miracle
Published: Sun, 01/15/23
Ordinary Women
Non-duality moment… what would it be like as a woman to value ordinariness? A relaxed ordinariness? It might be the solution to all your problems.
Perception
We all know that the sun doesn’t rise or set. What’s actually happening is that the sun is relatively stationary and the earth is spinning around. The Zen of Astronomy So there was this one modern mystic who gave us a great Zen Story. He said, “What would it look like if the sun actually …
Ordinariness
This week’s Zen story is another one about ordinariness. It’s a story about Bankai from a long time ago. It’s about how we are always hankering for miracles and magic. Islam includes this An interesting little tidbit about Mohammed, and tribal society at the time of Mohammed, was they didn’t like miracles either. The reason …
Finding Reality
What would it be like if we stopped looking for miracles. That’s what this week’s Zen story is about. We might actually find reality. Reality is that place where nothing is broken.
