meditations

  • What is the Easiest Practice?

    Originally posted on How To Practice Zen: What could be easier than just letting go? If we had nothing to hold on to, nothing to reach for, nothing to drop, what would that be like? What about dropping opinions about politics? Sports?… Continue reading

    What is the Easiest Practice?
  • Controlled Accident

    At the heart of perennial philosophizing is an always developing mastery that we can, following Alan Watts, call “controlled accident.” Others have done far better than I could in really detailing what is meant by this oxymoronic usage. But if… Continue reading