Zen and the Motorcycle: Riding, Freedom, and the Practice of the Road
There is something about a motorcycle that strips life down to essentials. There is no wall between the rider and the world. The air is…
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Harriet Glickman, Charles Schulz, and the Quiet Revolution of Franklin in Peanuts
In the spring of 1968, the United States was grieving, burning, arguing, and changing. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated on April 4. Cities…
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The Greatness of Fantasy Art: Frazetta, Vallejo, the Hildebrandts, and the Visual Imagination of the Modern Mythic Age
Fantasy art is often treated as a lesser branch of visual culture, as though dragons, warriors, sorceresses, strange worlds, heroic bodies, enchanted forests, alien landscapes,…
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Equanimity Is Not Indifference
Equanimity is often misunderstood as emotional distance, passivity, or detachment from life. To some, the still mind appears cold. To others, silence looks like withdrawal.…
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The Rabbit and the Hare in World Art History: Fertility, Moonlight, Marginality, and the Sacred Ordinary
Introduction Few animals have moved as easily between the sacred, the comic, the erotic, and the domestic as the rabbit and the hare. Across world…
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Understanding Non-Duality
Non-duality is one of those spiritual ideas that can sound mysterious, abstract, or even contradictory until we realize that it is pointing to something very…
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Right View: Seeing Clearly at the Beginning of the Path
Right View is the first factor of the Noble Eightfold Path, and this placement is not accidental. Before we can speak skillfully, act ethically, meditate…
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Humanism and Zen Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin
At first glance, humanism and Zen Buddhism may appear to come from very different worlds. Humanism is often described in modern, philosophical, and sometimes secular…
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Buddha Nature: The Original Face of Awakening
Buddha Nature is one of the most beautiful, misunderstood, and potentially dangerous teachings in Buddhism. Properly understood, it is a profound affirmation: awakening is not…
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The Pre-Raphaelite School of Art: History, Philosophy, Artists, Influence, and Modern Legacy
Introduction The Pre-Raphaelite school of art occupies one of the most fascinating positions in nineteenth-century cultural history. It was at once a rebellion and a…
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