Clark Strand

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A Gleeful Foreboding

Why we secretly crave severe storms

By Clark Strand

Aug 31, 2015

Trike Daily Society & Environment

What Was Mindfulness?

Mindfulness seemed like the answer to our prayers. Instead, it came to justify some of our worst cultural excesses.

By Clark Strand

Nov 14, 2014

Trike Daily Society & Environment

Green Koans Case 54: Nichiren’s One-Eyed Turtle

CASE #54: Nichiren’s One-Eyed Turtle Nichiren Daishonin wrote: “This is as rare as the one-eyed turtle finding a suitable hollow in a floating sandalwood log, or a thread lowered from the heavens passing through the eye of a needle on earth. How wondrous!” BACKGROUND Nichiren Daishonin Nichiren (1222 – 1282) is the founder of […]

By Clark Strand

Jun 12, 2013

Trike Daily Society & Environment

Green Koans Case 31: Daito’s Raincoat

CASE #31: Daito’s Raincoat Daito Kokushi wrote a short verse about the rain: No umbrella, getting soaked,I’ll just use the rain as my raincoat. BACKGROUND Daito Kokushi A Japanese Zen master of the Rinzai sect, Daito (1282-1337) was the founder of Daitoku-ji Monastery, one of Japan’s most influential temples. Established as “National Teacher” by […]

By Clark Strand

Jun 12, 2013

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Green Koans Case 61: The Naked Dharma

CASE #61: The Naked Dharma Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen taught: Even if you do not search or study anything, the natural state is always with you from the limitless beginning. There is nothing to lose and nothing to find. If you search yourself can you find it? Therefore you should not speak about searching for the […]

By Clark Strand

Oct 07, 2011

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Green Koans Case 60: Dōgen’s To-Do List

CASE #60: Dōgen’s To-Do List Dōgen Zenji wrote himself a reminder: To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies […]

By Clark Strand

Sep 29, 2011

Magazine

Trees, Butterflies, and the Buddhist Moral Life

Step Four of the Green Bodhisattva Path

By Clark Strand

Fall 2011

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Green Koans Case 58: Tōhta’s Haunted Sea

CASE #58: Tōhta’s Haunted Sea A poem by the modern avant-guarde haiku poet Kaneko Tōhta reads: In the blue sea wherecormorants and hungry ghostshave already swum BACKGROUND:Kaneko Tōhta Tōhta (b. 1919) is one of the most important modern Japanese haiku masters, known for his bold, often surrealistic experimental style and for his humanistic approach to […]

By Clark Strand

Sep 01, 2011

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Green Koans Case 57: Shakyamuni’s Ignorant Man

CASE #57: Shakyamuni’s Ignorant Man In the Dhammapada, Shakyamuni Buddha says: The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom. BACKGROUND: Dhammapada One of the best known texts in the Theravada canon, and embraced by a plurality of Buddhist sects in all traditions, the Dhammapada is said to contain the authentic […]

By Clark Strand

Aug 25, 2011

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