Against the reddening sky there looms a towering, jagged cliff face. Like a scar in the land, bloodied by the setting sun, it speaks the ...

Rinzai studied philosophy. From a young age the questions of life irritated him like a pointed pebble in his sandal. He needed to find th...

In my twenties, when I first began to date my former wife, she took me to visit her grandfather at the elderly care-facility where he was...

I was 12 years old, in my grade six class. It was a sunny, baseball kind of day that tugged at me impatiently from outside the long, hori...

Nature, as a concept in the modern mind, has been acutely distorted by human materialism. Given ‘nature’ in a word-association quiz, the ...

When I was 23, I took LSD for the first time. I have never taken it again since, just never had the desire; there was nothing more to lea...