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Rusty Ring: WW: Forest fire sunset
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Reflections of an old-timey hermit. Wednesday, 12 August 2015. WW: Forest fire sunset. The fire is a few miles west of this ridge; prevailing winds brought the smoke this way, creating this bloody [and I mean that literally] sunset.). WW: Forest fire sunset. Olympia summer sunset Wordless Wednesday. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I devoted my life to Zen practice many years ago. "That which does not kill me, makes me kinder.". View my complete profile. What's Your Buddhist Name? Arthur C. Clarke.
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Rusty Ring: Shipwrecked
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Reflections of an old-timey hermit. Thursday, 13 August 2015. The first pages, written when my wife was still living with me but flaunting an affair – and getting in a lot of gratuitous cruelty on the side – are especially gruelling. ( Borderline Personality Disorder. If you're married to it. The role of my growing monastic practice in enduring all of this is clear in entries such as:. Yet I took her actual leaving surprisingly hard. Surprising, I say, because I'd quite had enough of her by then; I w...
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Rusty Ring: Hermitcraft: Rushlight (Candle Lantern)
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Reflections of an old-timey hermit. Thursday, 5 April 2012. Hermitcraft: Rushlight (Candle Lantern). Every hermit needs a rushlight. It's a meditation candle, a trail light, and general illumination where there is no electricity. I made this one before I went into the woods. Last summer, and it served daily and well. As you can see, this is bindle. And a few minutes later it rotates back and lasers me again. A hole can only do this until the flame burns past it, but a slit can pester you all night. Worse...
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Rusty Ring: Product Review: The Mobile Meditator Zafu
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Reflections of an old-timey hermit. Thursday, 19 May 2011. Product Review: The Mobile Meditator Zafu. One of the drawbacks of writing a hermit blog is you don't get to write many product reviews. As a rule, hermits don't "do" products; products mean materialism, which means consumerism, which means buying things, which means having money, which means valuing money. Which we also don't do. (Forget ice to Eskimos; the real test of salesmanship is selling anything. To a hermit.). The only other product.
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Rusty Ring: Enlightenment Kyôsaku
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Reflections of an old-timey hermit. Thursday, 6 August 2015. Why chatter about enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof,. I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out. Photo of woodblock print. Night Rain at Oyama, by. 二代目 歌川豊国 [Utagawa Toyokuni II], courtesy of William Pearl and Wikimedia Commons.). The Rusty Ring Art Gallery. Enlightenment hermit practice kyôsaku poem Ryokan The Rusty Ring Art Gallery. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. WW: Forest fire sunset.
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Rusty Ring: Poem: As You Like It (The Hermit)
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Reflections of an old-timey hermit. Thursday, 23 July 2015. Poem: As You Like It (The Hermit). Through the magic of Twitter. I recently met Prabhu Iyer. A poet in Chennai (India). Among his many compelling works. Is a Hermit cycle that succinctly encapsulates the eremitical impulse and mindset. He has graciously given me permission to post a movement I particularly like here, and so I'm sharing it with you. AS YOU LIKE IT (THE HERMIT). Let the film end before intermission. And let the background score.
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Rusty Ring: Hermitcraft: Oat Bannocks
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Reflections of an old-timey hermit. Thursday, 8 March 2012. I often see in my blog stats that people have landed on my hermit bread. Pointed out to Johnson, oats build a fine horse. Therefore, to correct an injustice and educate the uncultured, I provide here-in the key to proper eating. 1 cup rolled oats. More oatmeal for rolling. 1/4 teaspoon baking powder. 1 tablespoon melted butter. Set a rack six inches from the top of the oven and dial up 350 degrees.*. Sprinkle a baking sheet liberally with oatmeal.
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Rusty Ring: How to Meditate
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Reflections of an old-timey hermit. Thursday, 14 November 2013. More experienced sitters may also find Meditation Tips. Meditation is easy to do but challenging to learn, mostly because it is. So easy; practitioners either don't talk about technique at all, or tart it up with so much precious tripe it's hard to discern the fundamentals. When I became a hermit monk. With the Internet and common sense my only master, I had some difficulty getting the hang of this sitting thing. We don't meditate to accompl...
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Rusty Ring: Hermitcraft: Bindle Oryoki Set
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Reflections of an old-timey hermit. Thursday, 4 June 2015. Hermitcraft: Bindle Oryoki Set. Though the word translates as "just enough", oryoki has grown to mind-numbing complexity in Zen monasteries, where every second of every meal is carefully choreographed. Beginners often view this mealtime ritual as an onerous pack of made-up fuss, but in fact it's the most efficient way to get lots of people through a full-course meal and back to work. (Once everyone's mastered it, anyway.). The elements, with appr...
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Homeless Tom: July 2009
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July 30, 2009. Howdy, y'all. Just a word to let you know I have returned from the hoosegow and am now, again on patrol of the homeless-, sacramento-, and buddho-blogospheres – to the extent the probation departmento of the Sacramento justice system allows. One thing I come away from my experience not understanding is the purpose of jail. I come away wondering what theories there are 'out there' on what jail is supposed to achieve. Sure, basically it should be. Is it proper, then, for inmates with the mea...
