When you have questions or problems in your practice, it means that you are not practicing shikantaza. If you practice shikantaza, you know...

Even though we say “just sit,” to understand what does it mean is rather difficult, maybe. So that is why Dogen Zenji left us so many teach...

I think, according to what I read long ago, that the great thing Nancy Reagan did was to encourage her husband to deal  with Gorbachev to...

The Union of Atomic Scientists are not asleep . cuke page for  Species Threat #1 - Nuclear War  

Southeast Asia  or  Southeastern Asia  is a  subregion  of  Asia , consisting of the countries that are geographically south of  China ,...

But it needs more nails - maybe till there's nothing but nail heads available.  Addiction relieved by connection . Drug war just persec...

To know things as it is is to let everything act as they want. Let it be free - because you want to bind it, you have difficulties. It mean...

From the guardian . Good for them. Thinking about this. I have not been helping. - dc The fate of industrially farmed animals is one of t...

Solitary confinement as torture exposed in  Breaking Down the Box , the  new NRCAT film,  a 40-minute documentary for communities of faith,...

Why Obama wants to torpedo a plan to fight human trafficking  - Nothing makes the Malaysian government look good these days.

After all the harm caused by my country in Asia, as the US  ranks 5th on the global execution scale , I think it unwise to be overly judgme...

Read this on BBC Richard Branson calls on Indonesian PM to spare Bali Nine pai r and discovered this great organization Global Comm...

Nyoman drove Katrinka and me to the prison here today to meet with others to get prisoner paintings to take to the Hard Rock Cafe in Kuta t...

Chasing the Scream  - from the Huff Post - A great contribution to Harm Reduction - reducing the harm from drugs and the war on drugs.

An articulate young woman from Surabaya in Java sat next to us at the night market last night and before parting we discussed the upcoming ...

from the Jakarta Globe Indonesia’s stance on the death penalty has become incoherent

Abbott cites 'legal options' amid Bali Nine corruption claims Death for Chan and Sukumaran while home-town kingpin gets repri...

They're going to firing squad some more poor saps who were too far down the controlled substance chain to matter. Why doesn't Austr...

Here's a good brief article on Indonesia drug deaths, published yesterday in the Jakarta Post eight days after Indonesia executed six ...