Simple Mind Zen

The Ordinary Mind School of Zen Buddhist practice
after C.Joko Beck, Diane Rizzetto and Ezra Bayda.

Showing posts with label desire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label desire. Show all posts
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Eros In Venus

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"Sexual desire without Eros wants the thing in itself." -- The Four Loves,  C.S. Lewis Venus, the goddess of love in Greek myth...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Nothing Special: Promises Not Kept

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"He who does not expect, has all things" Charlotte Joko Beck writes, "Our human trouble arises from desire. Not all desire...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Logic at the Edges

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"Words do have edges. So do you." Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson Continuing her thoughts into Sappho's poem, fragment ...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Eros Is a Verb

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"It was Sappho who first called eros "bittersweet."  --Eros Bittersweet by Anne Carson While hard to translate when appli...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Sensuality, Sentiment and Love

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"Sentimentality must be clearly distinguished from love"  --Karol Wojtyla So much of our deepest, spiritual longings center arou...
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"having received instruction for several years first by a Buddhist practitioner of the Mahayana tradition, and then at the Prairie Zen Center, I bring to the web the Simple Mind School of practice.
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