Engaging the spiritual life today with Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford. James' passions include Zen Buddhism, mystical religion, especially Christian, and those lives growing authentic and deep between the traditions.
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An Intimate Way
(A dharma talk given on Sunday the 25th of October, 2026 at the Blue Cliff Zen Center in Eugene, Oregon)
Blue Cliff is now a dozen years old! Pretty cool.
Makes me think about Zen community, sangha, what it is, and how we can sustain it o...
Meister Eckhart
A Zen appreciation
A draft for a chapter in my forthcoming study Zen Master Jesus, scheduled to come out from Monkfish Books late in 2027.
Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross
There are a couple of versions of this story that arise out of oral traditions. My favorite is how the nun and reformer of the Carmelite monastic tradition is on one of her missions, riding a donkey in a rainstorm. They’re on a hillside whe...
Zen as Mysticism
Appreciating Evelyn Underhill as a bridge between Zen and Christian mysticism
I’m not sure when I first became aware of Evelyn Underhill. But I do know that once I realized Alan Watts mostly relied on D. T. Suzuki and I started reading him...
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN
And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is wit...
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