How to Live Like a Zen Master
Lessons from spiritual adepts from various traditions tell us the same thing: Cultivate the eyes of a child
Topic
Religion
A collection of 878 issues
Satanism is on the Rise
And he's not talking about BLM, transgenderism, that pitiful Vanderbilt
place-kicker stunt, and couples wedding showers. He's talking about actual
Satanic activity.
Scary stuff at National Catholic Register this morning
[https://www.ncregister.com/interview/longtime-exorcist-satanism-is-growing-in-western-societies]
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"Satanism is now a reality for many young people,
I Don't Love the Nightlife and I Don't Got to Boogie (Published in 2020)
But I miss the bars: An Ode During COVID
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Samuel Johnson
Like Samuel Johnson and Alicia Bridges (see title), I like a good bar.
A Festivus for the Rest of Us
Yeah, I know: Festivus is a fake holiday created by Seinfeld in 1997, when Mr.
Costanza told Kramer about the family holiday he created: Festivus.
It was, Mr. Costanza explained, a “festivus for the rest of us.”
It has since become a real “thing,”
[https://time.com/4617553/festivus-holiday-origins-seinfeld/] with
The Architecture of Speed
Thoughts build your everyday existence. Technology affects your thoughts. The implications? Ask Marshall McLuhan.
Sometimes I’m Gothic. Other times, Tudor-ish. In the morning I might be Romanesque, but by the afternoon I’m Bauhaus.
The architecture of my mind changes day-to-day, hour-to-hour, sometimes minute-to-minute. I generally want to live
The Senator Asked Barrett if She has Ever Committed a Sexual Assault
Oh, if everyone could just sit back and laugh at the idiocy spawned by our
higher educational institutions
Leftists crack me up: Senator Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, asked whether Amy Comey
Barrett has ever sexually assaulted someone.
It's this kind of idiocy that gets 75-year-old women searched at airports.
New Mother Cabrini Statue Next on the Hit List
Plus More HSP, Gardening Corner, and Louis Prima
I'm impressed: New York City erected a statue of Mother Cabrini yesterday in Battery Park. I hope they put it behind a huge fence and appoint an armed guard to protect it. I mean, it's such a testament
Ash Wednesday
Someone once asked a monk what they do all day in the monastery. The monk
replied, "We fall down and get up, fall down and get up."
It's an apt description of every earnest life, especially during Lent, which
might be called "the layman'
Thursday
Apologetics 101 from Orestes
Although Brownson was a collaborator with the radical Fanny Wright (and her
partner, socialist Robert Owen), and had veered strongly toward agnosticism
himself, he quickly found their anti-religion stance intellectually-clumsy. The
radicals taught that religion/superstition (the two are synonymous for radicals)
was coeval and co-existent
Thursday
The Zen of Lisieux
Two passages from John C. h. Wu's The Golden Age of Zen that I ran across last
week:
"Tao is nothing else than the ordinary mind, every ordinary action is an
expression of Tao."
"[O]ne of the central insights of