[tabby title="Poem"] 'Some notes from and about Qici the Sack Monk' Qici (契此和尚),who was also known as 'the Sack Monk' (布袋和尚),is said to have left a note -now recorded in Chinese as follows: 彌勒真彌勒,分身百千億,時時示世人,世人總不識. That might be interpreted as noted...

[tabby title="Poem"] “Shiva and Shakti,”some say,“are indistinguishable.They are one.They are the universe.Shiva isn’t masculine.Shakti isn’t feminine.At the core of their mutual penetration,the supreme consciousness opens”. Energy, ability, strength, effort, power and capability(शक्ति [śakti])and happiness, welfare, prosperity, bliss and liberation(शिव [śivá])are...

[tabby title="Poem"] Russians launch more rockets against Kiev,celebrities, a pope and other mere mortals are dropping like flies(including holiday-makers killed in a helicopter crash at Sea World),China faces a new form of COVID calamity,Twitter probed after hack involving 400 million,recession...

[tabby title="Poem"] Why the crow? It is natural. The ideal way to live one’s life –whether referred to as मार्ग (Mārga: ‘the eight-fold noble path’),道 (the Dào)or Λόγος (Logos: the ‘Word’) –crows concerning all manner of things …including the Sun,...

[tabby title="Poem"] 雖終聖器然公皇崩靡器分聞乃歷假食眉我均阻風輸亂雲盆始子順探歸符歷 Venerable sages(like Confucius, those considered 'masters', 'saints', 'sacred', 'holy' or 'noble'and some who are emperorsor kings)universally make fair and equitable public announcementsto eliminate prestige, reputation and famefocused on stubbornly holding to one’s opinion, belittling others and killing(the...