new haiku corner
http://tr.im/yfre new haiku corner in the universe http://community.tricycle.com/group/tricyclecommunitypoetryclub/forum/topics/haiku-corner all are welcome from behind the autumn wind blows me home -- issa
http://tr.im/yfre new haiku corner in the universe http://community.tricycle.com/group/tricyclecommunitypoetryclub/forum/topics/haiku-corner all are welcome from behind the autumn wind blows me home -- issa
this is to note and celebrate penguin's publication this week of a new book by me, and in so doing invite forum members who wish to partake for free, thanks to interesting, unforseen turns of... More »
I N C U N A B U L A i don't wish to alarm you. this is just a report of last weekend. my talk on buddhism & poetry for cherry blossom festival... More »
Exclusive on Tricycle.com: Riches in a Different Market I hope you enjoy
Google scanned and is posting about 26 pages (an alphabet!) from Flowers of a Moment (including some of the illustrations), at Books.Google.Com, as one of their Limited Preview s: http://tinyurl.com/6e5ljl [This book contains 185 zen... More »
There are dozens of Buddhist films from Japan. Who can forget Rashomon (1950), in which a monk hears of one event told from different points of view. Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1956) is... More »
having explored movies AS buddhist let's now explore buddhist movies Is Gone with the Wind About Impermanence? There isn't an Oscar for Spiritual Cinema, at least not yet, but tens of millions of people enjoy... More »
3 Quotes " ... the metaphor of movie for life is an interesting one. The frames go by so quickly that we retain the illusion of continuity and are distracted from the light that shines... More »
... continuation / If we stop to think about this further, we see that when we're engrossed in a movie our ability to exchange our self with others* reveals the basic insubstantiality of self.... More »
Cinema provides another metaphor: for reality's Eternal Now. I remember once sitting behind a five-year-old and an adult at a matinee, and every ten minutes or so the kid would ask the adult, "What's happening... More »