Casting Aside Doubts
joe on Aug 23 2008 | Filed under: 2008, Duckweed, Authenticity
Just posted “Casting Aside Doubts” over at my new blog “One Bright Pearl”.
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One Bright Pearl
joe on Aug 22 2008 | Filed under: Dana, homelessness, One Bright Pearl, 2008, zazen, Duckweed, Homeleaving, Zen
My new blog - One Bright Pearl - is finally online although I still am developing the blogs presentation. From today onward, all posts relating specifically to my practice of takuhatsu and zazen as a homeless mendicant following the Way as taught by Dogen Zenji will be posted there.
Dope Sick Again
joe on Aug 11 2008 | Filed under: addict, heroin addict, Methadone Withdrawal, junkie, Karma, Brightness, Eihei Dogen, Rehab, Addiction, shikantaza, zazen, 2008, Duckweed
Sometimes it isn’t until after the storm that a new perspective dawns. What I had been telling myself were just so many lies, about the increasing dependence on pain meds, the rationalization to use heroin rather than visit the doc at the pain management clinic, and finally, my decision to begin Methadone Maintenance three years […]
