Author: The Tattooed Buddha

How Two Sunchoke Plants Reminded Me About Strength

My philosopher brain that always has to correlate a life lesson to things in nature began to spin.

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Wanting Little: An Excerpt from Jailbirds in Flight

I live in Religion Row, the first row of the 10 rows of bunks. Three of us were meditating yesterday on one end while three people at the other end were holding Bible study.

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Meeting Cuong Lu: Monk, Teacher, Former Prison Chaplain and Author

Born in Vietnam during the Vietnam war, Cuong Lu emigrated to the Netherlands in 1980 where he later studied at Plum Village under and later became ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh. 

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Taking the Backward Step

This is what Zen describes as the pathless path. We are already the path and there is no path to follow.

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Silicon Fingers Pointing at the Moon

But there is one thing where it comes into its own, where it really is a stone-cold killer: that thing is chatting about Buddhism.

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