Monday, May 19, 2014

Experience Counts

It is through our own experience, our experience of watching & being with others, that we determine how best to proceed. What steps to take in our lives. This experience is both in words and actions; sights, sounds, and smells. Everything we encounter counts.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Dōjō道場 (Way Place, A place for Training in The Way)

The original term 道場 dōjō was used in Buddhist temples to denote a training hall. Not usually martial arts in the beginning, but later they began to be used this way. Today the term is most well known as a martial arts training all. But it a hall to train in The Way; The Way was expected to refer to A Way of the Dharma.