Summer evening

Golden minute.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/06/ww-summer-evening.html

#summer, #sunset, #photography, #WordlessWednesday

Practice Kyôsaku

The relative value of religious teaching.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/05/practice-kyosaku.html

#dogma, #food ,#hermitpractice, #India, #kyôsaku, #ShunryuSuzuki, #Sikhism

Evening Spectacle

You have to be there at just the right time.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/ww-evening-spectacle.html

#lichen, #night, #photography, #winter, #WordlessWednesday

A Prayer for the New Year

A teaching from the great Zen master Anon.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-prayer-for-new-year.html

#Christianity, #hermitpractice, #NewYears, #poem, #Zen

Kanzeon Meditation

She's a compassionate dude.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2014/01/kanzeon-meditation.html

#Avalokiteshvara, #blessing, #bodhisattva, #FudoMyōō, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #NewYears, #Zen

Merry Christmas 2025

Find it, or make it.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/12/merry-christmas-2025.html

#Christmas, #hermitpractice, #Japan, #Zen

Pumpikin zafus

For your seasonal sitting.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2017/10/ww-pumpkin-zafus.html

#Halloween, #meditation, #monastery, #zafu, #Zen

Street Level Zen: Family

It's an art.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/10/street-level-zen-family.html

#bodhisattva, #children, #family, #MauriceSendak, #StreetLevelZen, #Zen

Hermitcraft: Sourdough Starter

Get started.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2013/01/hermitcraft-sourdough-starter.html

#bread, #food, #HenryDavidThoreau, #hermitpractice, #hermitcraft, #recipe, #sourdough

Ajahn Brahm's Five Types of Religion

Choose carefully.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2012/11/ajahn-brahms-five-types-of-religion.html

#AjahnBrahm, #Australia, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #guruworship, #hermitpractice, #mindfulness, #monastery, #monk, #podcast, #Theravada, #Zen

Koan: Ole and Lena

Respect the forms.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2012/10/koan-ole-and-lena.html

#hermitpractice, #koan, #Zen

The Grandfather Paradox

It's easier to do stuff when you're born.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-grandfather-paradox.html

#Buddhism, #cœnobite, #Esperanto, #FudoMyōō, #hermitpractice, #Hinduism, #India, #koan, #monastery, #paradox, #starfish

Hermitcraft: How To Make Ghee

A simple recipe made with cow butter that guarantees results.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2012/09/hermitcraft-how-to-make-ghee.html

#100DaysontheMountain, #ango, #food, #hermitcraft, #India, #recipe

Tugboat in the passage

Not a black and white photo.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2012/05/ww-tugboat-in-passage.html

#boat, #PugetSound

Poem: The Frog Sutra

Insight from a mysterious unknown poet.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2024/06/poem-frog-sutra.html

#frog, #haiku, #hermitpractice, #herpetology, #poem, #sutra, #Zen

Poem: Frog Sutra

Insight from a mysterious unknown poet.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2024/06/poem-frog-sutra.html

#frog, #haiku, #hermitpractice, #herpetology, #Kansetsu, #poem, #sutra #Zen

"Under capitalism, man is exploited by man. Under communism, it's the other way around."

Old Russian joke (that happens to be accurate to the tenth decimal).

I've said it before: we captured the first cat by just setting out a cardboard box.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

As South Africa is in the news, here's a relevant point: its very large Jewish community is one of its founding peoples. So much for the notion that Jews necessarily support everything Israel does, or that antisemitism is a logical response to Israeli offence.

And thank you, South Africa, for providing proactive leadership. This entire calamity is nothing but unmitigated horror from Day 1, and it's going to take courage and adulthood to build a way out of it.