Gateless Gate News Today

Dear Brothers and Sisters, We all have learned to protect our name, our reputation and our honor fiercely, ready to stand up and fight to defend them when they are under attacked. Name, reputation and honor are probably the same thing in Vietnamese. Name is danh; reputation is danh tiếng (voice/sound of name); honor is…

Rituals small and large, private and communal, are part of how we human beings interact, communicate. And they are a central part of Zen.

The Zen classic, the Gateless Barrier, is one of the handful of spiritual books that I revisit over and over again.

Zen meditation evolved from classic Buddhist meditation. It comes to us blending Vipassana or “insight,” and Shamatha or “concentration.”

The koanic way is both an imaginative exercise and a body practice.This is where I find the project of writing one’s own gospel.

A new rock music and pop culture website. Editorial independent music website offering news, reviews, features, interviews, videos and pictures

Robots. Jokes. That special category where the universe tweaks our nose and winks at us. Winks, and crooks a finger, beckoning us to follow.

Franz Kafka in his Blue Octavo Notebooks has given us this brief parable:“The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that,  but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.”Look through the world around you and you will find intimations of the Dharma, glimpses, echoes, not always complete, but never less than rich. The sound of a digeredoo in the midst of white noise, a hint from the sermon of a Christ...

A koan is a riddle or puzzle that Zen Buddhists use during meditation to help them unravel greater truths. We look at some examples to see how these enigmatic sayings work.

Mu is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese character 無 (Mandarin pronounciation wú), which means "does not have" or "wit...