Zen Baptist

This question appeared to me this morning, as it has before, but this morning it appeared with special urgency. Why does the son of God have...

We know that "a thing isn't true unless there is someone to observe it is true" (a la Schrodinger and his cat). We also know ...

Plato (427-347 B.C.) wrote "For there is no light of justice or temperance or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls in th...

"When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more." Though this old hymn was written by a Methodist Sunday Scho...

As I move further along the actuarial table. a life insurance monetary scheme in which one bets how long one is to live (I have no life insu...

Whatever your thoughts on the matter, Jesus's suffering helped free millions from suffering. What a blessing! Stomp your feet all you wa...

It is interesting to me that Bonaventure (1221 - 1274), an Italian Christian scholastic mystic, and Banke i (1622 - 1693), a Japanese Zen m...

You will forever know the only Self to which you allow room. To know the Transcendent, you must be capable of the Transcendent. Capable mean...

An exclusivist stance in one's religion is where one believes that one's spiritual path is the only and true spiritual path and that...

In founding the religion of Christianity, Paul and his followers cast it in the mold of the religion of Zoroaster (600+ BCE)-- light versus ...

I come from a long line of protestants and am a protestant of protestantism. The protest must arise anew with each protestant. "You mus...

When we make the temporal our temple, we have short-sheeted our cosmic bed.

A major trap in christianity is the worship of Jesus. One is then let off the hook as far as any major change in self. The way out of this g...

All theology and philosophy is a depiction of the theologian's or philosopher's state of consciousness. A particular state of consci...

IF we keep dreaming we are the way we are, we will remain as we are. AS we keep dreaming we are the way we are, we remain as we are. This ha...

"All things are possible with God." True. But with us individuals, possibility depends upon and takes shape through our latent pre...

I like it that Jesus could whup anybody's ass but generally chose not to, becoming a servant instead. He could stand up on his hind legs...

We pour the water we are into ice trays. We want a frame, to be held. We get rigid. We put our cubed self into a glass of water. Ah! we...

Literal christianity is a stumbling block. Mystical or depth christianity is another matter. To throw that baby out with the literal bathwat...

"... permitting the soul thus to free itself from all the schemata of the world." Henry Corbin, Avicenna and the Visionary Recita...

I love the breath that breathes me. When I love the breath that breathes me, I become the breath that breathes me. When I become the br...

If you believe your god is the only god, you are automatically at war. Never mind that you say your god is love.

As a holy joe, you are a schmo. Sinking into dark, you are a snark. Jesus and Beelzebub are brothers, Chasing round and round that tree ...

Christianity as a method of salvation loses all its efficacy as a method when that method becomes a reality. Once one leaps from a springboa...

"The color of water is the color of its vessel." (Junayd, 10th century) Water also assumes the form of its vessel. Hence, the gr...

The tuning fork that we are consists of one tine of pure animal and one tine of pure spirit. The call is for both tines to vibrate fully, op...

The Not-Even-One, the One, and the dualistic Two which we embody ("on the one hand and on the other hand") merge to make the Three...

0 - wu- nothing - source - father/mother 1 - yu - something - emanation - son/daughter 2 - t'ai - everything - interflow - holy spirit...

I love Easter. Life arising out of Death. All of Nature displaying this pattern mysterious yet familiar. Famil-iar: in the Family. Even and ...

"Sin" is not a popular term and is open to ridicule by those who reject an out-moded Christian paradigm based on guilt. To me, sin...

"He said hello to the Morning Jesus. The Morning Jesus is calm and bright, good sunshine colors. Humorous, the Morning Jesus is humorou...

Humans: a cosmic experiment whose outcome is yet to be known, except by the Great Ah-Hoo-Ah-Hoo-Ah whose end is only a fresh beginning and w...

Self-reflection: absorption in the echoes bouncing off the thin, tough, and shifting membrane of the imagination.

Heart in the cosmos, feet in the world of men, I make my coffee, I dance and sing.

The preachers of yore, of my childhood, whether on Sunday or one of those hot eternal Revival summer nights, would get up in the pulpit, the...

I am the Eternal PacMan chomping life while monsters chase. A golden sun with pie wedge mouth devouring all before me monster in dis...

the rooster crowing the hen clucking the flower opening the corpse rotting the lotus blooming the root mucking the spirit fleshing ...

When we say it's this or that we've now shat in our own hat. When we say it's them or us we've become a spiteful cus...

Early thought was that hell existed below (beneath the earth) and heaven existed above (in the sky). That gave way to a belief that both h...

These words came this night: "If you wish to be a Christ-ian, you must achieve the point of view of Christ. Your soul is your point of ...

I am amused that science is proud of its hard-headedness in relying upon data, then engages a mooshy-headedness in explaining that data. Tak...

I struggle to rise from the mud I am, making a cup for receiving thy grace. The cup becomes a chalice, thy wine inpouring. Chalice, wine mer...

The first birth is into the world of matter, where one is a 25 to 28 foot worm coiled in an encasing whose main concerns are incorporation...

I belong to the B.A.N.A.N.A. school of Zen: Bare Ass Naked Awareness Now Awarenessing.

We are light indensifying. This in-dense-ification is our wounding and our challenge.

When I first awaken, I am in the diaphanous, transparent, or celestial mode. I have not yet formed into and as this physicality. In this mod...

Engaging in polemics in politics, religion, and philosophy is akin to standing on a plank in infinite space and proclaiming the virtues of...

My theology: 1. "I saw him as I was able to receive him." (Acts of Peter) 2. "The look by which I know him is the very look b...

Decades ago I found that arising at 4 a.m., sitting quietly and going to ashes, all agenda and personification extinguished, allowed an aris...

The transformation of the human species to cosmic citizenry comes with a price. The hard-won independent egoic self must be surrendered to t...

Death is not the cold body on the ground. Those are the remains. Something has escaped. Be that which escapes. Before the escape. Ride with ...

There are those of us who experience a close relationship with our Source, the Wellspring, God -- an intimate friendship which has nothing t...

It is not that theology is obsolete, then, but that it still is, and for an unpredictable length of time, in the embryonic stage .” Emile Ca...

Despite protestations to the contrary, everyone of us is religious, swears allegiance over and over to an object of worship. Whatever you at...

"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." (Matthew 26: 41) While I understand and see the validity of this statement, it is ...

What is Christ if not a symbol of our own mythos, our own story, our own birth, trials, crucifixion, death, and rebirth, our own ascension...