- Regarding Warhol
I saw "Regarding Warhol: Sixy Artists, Fifty Years" at the Met today. I've always enjoyed Warhol: his every work makes a clear, prescient statement, and there are days I just want to go to a museum, understand what the art is saying to me, and [ ... ]
- Review of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by James Agee and Walker Evans
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" by James Agee and Walker Evans, 1941. I give up. I can't finish this nor ever will. Walker Evans begins the book with a few dozen photos, most of which are mediocre at best, a handful of which are among the best [ ... ]
- Dhyana
- Review of "Opening the Hand of Thought" by Kosho Uchiyama
Highly recommended, but don't feel bad for skimming the second half. The book's early chapters offer the most specific and practical guide to zazen that I have read—the method, its goals, and what the meditator can reasonably [ ... ]
- Ordination Ceremony at the Village Zendo
This April I photographed a tokudo, an ordination ceremony at the Village Zendo for my friends Kaku (pictured above), Tokuyu, and Oshin. It began in the early morning with elder priests shaving the novices' heads. Then we held a ceremony [ ... ]
- Review of "The Social Organization of Zen Practice" by David L. Preston
I read this while I was practicing at Zen Mountain Center in 2003; it describes the effect of peer pressure on new Zen students.
- Adorable!
I had to post this adorable photo of Oshin and Seizan, two students at the Village Zendo.
- Spring 2012 Shuso Hossen
Some photos from this spring's Shuso Hossen, a ceremony in which our practice leader Soshin gave her first dharma talk.
- This Blog is PyPy-powered
My async MongoDB driver Motor now passes its test suite running in PyPy 1.9. To celebrate, I've switched my blog from CPython to PyPy! Update: I moved back to CPython 2.7. Although Motor and the rest of my blog's software appears to run [ ... ]
- "Digital Dharma"
I saw Digital Dharma last night at the Rubin Museum: Digital Dharma is E. Gene Smith's epic 50-year journey to find, preserve and digitize more than 20,000 volumes of ancient Tibetan text; a story of one man’s mission that became the [ ... ]