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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The Sins of the Fathers
How dreams cascade one after another
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's chi...
And Then There’s Alan Watts
(A draft of a chapter for my forthcoming Zen Master Jesus)
Alan Watts was the first person to write popular books about Zen in the west, most importantly in 1957 with his bestselling Way of Zen. He drew mainly on the scholarly volumes just...
Unsurpassed, complete, perfect enlightenment anyone?
(This article is a Dharma talk given by my dear friend Tom Daimon Wardle at the July 18th, 2026 Empty Moon Saturday sit. Tom is a Dharma Holder in the Harada Yasutani koan Zen lineage.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Mi...
Neither Monastic nor Lay
A meditation on the spiritual life
Shinran Shonin was one of those signal figures in the development of Japanese Buddhism. He has been compared to Martin Luther on occasion. He was born into Feudal Japanese nobility in 1173. However, like...
Heaven & Hell
In those brief years before adolescence one of my great fears was that my father was going to hell. Everyone else in the family was destined for heaven. But while we all faithfully attended a series of small fundamentalist Baptist churches;...
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