Sermons – The Zen Lunatic

A Meditation on Meditation

Meditation is something one associates with Zen, though they are not the same thing. Most people don’t really know what either one

Since I was sixteen, I have celebrated the Roman Holiday of Sol Invictus on December 25th. I’m not here to tell you

This past Sunday was my mother’s birthday, the first one since 1934 that did not see her walking the Earth. You would

The first thing anyone tells you when you mention that you ride, or even just want to ride, a motorcycle, is a

A Twentieth Century Zen Master named Yasutani would tell ihs students that the only thing which made Buddhism a religion rather than

As if you couldn’t tell, I’ve been binge-watching The Joy of Painting lately. While doing so, I discovered a monumental Truth. I

A couple of weeks ago, I spoke about being the sun. Maybe that was a little esoteric. Let me try and bring

Back at Motorcycle Safety School, we had an exercise where the object was to ride across a parking lot and circle around

The Ancient Egyptians were masters of metaphor. Their whole lives revolved around it. They spoke of ladders to ascend to Heaven, they

No doubt you have heard the phrase “out of your element.” It’s a phrase without benevolent overtones. It’s a phrase that implies