Simple Mind Zen

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

Showing posts with label eros. Show all posts

Showing posts with label eros. Show all posts

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Eros In Venus

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

Friday, June 16, 2017

Hostage to the Idea of Possession

"Eros makes promises, but agape keeps them." -- The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis Often we find ourselves in places which we never ...

Friday, May 27, 2016

Knowledge, Commitment and Freedom

"Only true knowledge of a person makes it possible to commit one's freedom to the other." --Karol Wojtyla "Love,...

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Logic at the Edges

"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

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

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Mature Innocence in Forgiveness and in Love

"Innocence is a mystery greater than evil." James Hillman Innocence in the soul suggests a state in which one exists unwounded by ...

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Simple Mind Zen: "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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