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WW: Late winter check-in Everything spec.

Late winter check-in

Everything spec.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/03/ww-l...

#hermitpractice, #photography, #winter, #WordlessWednesday, #Zen

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WW: Late winter check-in

Late winter check-in

Everything spec.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/03/ww-late-winter-c...

#hermitpractice, #photography, #winter, #WordlessWednesday, #Zen

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WW: Late winter check-in

Late winter check-in

Everything spec.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/03/ww-late-winter-c...

#hermitpractice, #photography, #winter, #WordlessWednesday, #Zen

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Responsiblity Kyôsaku Their karma is theirs, but your karma is yours.

Responsiblity Kyôsaku

Their karma is theirs, but your karma is yours.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/resp...

#autonomy, #bodhisattva, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #FudoMyōō, #hermitpractice, #Japan, #Judaism, #kyôsaku, #responsibility, #TheRustyRingArtGallery, #Zen

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Responsiblity Kyôsaku Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. Exodus 23:2 _(Photo ofFudo Myō-ō statue courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)_

Responsiblity Kyôsaku

Their karma is theirs, but your karma is yours.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/responsiblity-ky...

#autonomy, #bodhisattva, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #FudoMyōō, #hermitpractice, #Japan, #Judaism, #kyôsaku, #responsibility, #TheRustyRingArtGallery, #Zen

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Responsiblity Kyôsaku Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. Exodus 23:2 _(Photo ofFudo Myō-ō statue courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)_

Responsiblity Kyôsaku

Their karma is theirs, but your karma is yours.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/responsiblity-ky...

#autonomy, #bodhisattva, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #FudoMyōō, #hermitpractice, #Japan, #Judaism, #kyôsaku, #responsibility, #TheRustyRingArtGallery, #Zen

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Responsiblity Kyôsaku Their karma is theirs, but your karma is yours.

Responsiblity Kyôsaku

Their karma is theirs, but your karma is yours.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/resp...

#autonomy, #bodhisattva, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #FudoMyōō, #hermitpractice, #Japan, #Judaism, #kyôsaku, #responsibility, #TheRustyRingArtGallery, #Zen

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Responsiblity Kyôsaku Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. Exodus 23:2 _(Photo ofFudo Myō-ō statue courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)_

Responsiblity Kyôsaku

Their karma is theirs, but your karma is yours.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/responsiblity-ky...

#autonomy, #bodhisattva, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #FudoMyōō, #hermitpractice, #Japan, #Judaism, #kyôsaku, #responsibility, #TheRustyRingArtGallery, #Zen

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Responsiblity Kyôsaku Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. Exodus 23:2 _(Photo ofFudo Myō-ō statue courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)_

Responsiblity Kyôsaku

Their karma is theirs, but your karma is yours.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/responsiblity-ky...

#autonomy, #bodhisattva, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #FudoMyōō, #hermitpractice, #Japan, #Judaism, #kyôsaku, #responsibility, #TheRustyRingArtGallery, #Zen

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The Most Lost They're the ones who know.

The Most Lost

They're the ones who know.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

#hermitpractice, #nonhypocrisy, #poem, #skilfulness, #Zen

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The Most Lost I practice the religion that suits me. The one that says I'm right and you're wrong. That I'm the ideal, and you the mistake. We all do that. Except the most lost, Who commit the sin their sanghas condone In full knowledge. _(Photo courtesy of MC1 Chad J. McNeeley, the United States Navy, and Wikimedia Commons.)_

The Most Lost

They're the ones who know.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-most-lost.ht...

#hermitpractice, #nonhypocrisy, #poem, #skilfulness, #Zen

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The Most Lost I practice the religion that suits me. The one that says I'm right and you're wrong. That I'm the ideal, and you the mistake. We all do that. Except the most lost, Who commit the sin their sanghas condone In full knowledge. _(Photo courtesy of MC1 Chad J. McNeeley, the United States Navy, and Wikimedia Commons.)_

The Most Lost

They're the ones who know.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-most-lost.ht...

#hermitpractice, #nonhypocrisy, #poem, #skilfulness, #Zen

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The Most Lost They're the ones who know.

The Most Lost

They're the ones who know.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

#hermitpractice, #nonhypocrisy, #poem, #skilfulness, #Zen

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The Most Lost I practice the religion that suits me. The one that says I'm right and you're wrong. That I'm the ideal, and you the mistake. We all do that. Except the most lost, Who commit the sin their sanghas condone In full knowledge. _(Photo courtesy of MC1 Chad J. McNeeley, the United States Navy, and Wikimedia Commons.)_

The Most Lost

They're the ones who know.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-most-lost.ht...

#hermitpractice, #nonhypocrisy, #poem, #skilfulness, #Zen

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The Most Lost I practice the religion that suits me. The one that says I'm right and you're wrong. That I'm the ideal, and you the mistake. We all do that. Except the most lost, Who commit the sin their sanghas condone In full knowledge. _(Photo courtesy of MC1 Chad J. McNeeley, the United States Navy, and Wikimedia Commons.)_

The Most Lost

They're the ones who know.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-most-lost.ht...

#hermitpractice, #nonhypocrisy, #poem, #skilfulness, #Zen

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Emptiness What doughnuts are trying to tell you.

Emptiness

What doughnuts are trying to tell you.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/empt...

#food, #hermitpractice, #LaoTzu, #Taoism, #Zen

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Emptiness "It's the hole that makes the doughnut." The Tao Te Ching. (Probably.) _(Pre-certified doughnut courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)_

Emptiness

What doughnuts are trying to tell you.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/emptiness.html

#food, #hermitpractice, #LaoTzu, #Taoism, #Zen

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Emptiness "It's the hole that makes the doughnut." The Tao Te Ching. (Probably.) _(Pre-certified doughnut courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)_

Emptiness

What doughnuts are trying to tell you.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/emptiness.html

#food, #hermitpractice, #LaoTzu, #Taoism, #Zen

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Emptiness What doughnuts are trying to tell you.

Emptiness

What doughnuts are trying to tell you.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/empt...

#food, #hermitpractice, #LaoTzu, #Taoism, #Zen

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Emptiness "It's the hole that makes the doughnut." The Tao Te Ching. (Probably.) _(Pre-certified doughnut courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)_

Emptiness

What doughnuts are trying to tell you.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/emptiness.html

#food, #hermitpractice, #LaoTzu, #Taoism, #Zen

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Emptiness "It's the hole that makes the doughnut." The Tao Te Ching. (Probably.) _(Pre-certified doughnut courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a generous photographer.)_

Emptiness

What doughnuts are trying to tell you.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/02/emptiness.html

#food, #hermitpractice, #LaoTzu, #Taoism, #Zen

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Zenola The best breakfast you can get out of a trash bag.

Zenola

The best breakfast you can get out of a trash bag.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/zeno...

#100DaysontheMountain, #ango, #food, #hermitpractice, #recipe, #Zen

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Zenola I brought rather austere food when I sat 100 Days on the Mountain. Lunch and dinner were an identical bowl of rice and beans, spiced up with hot sauce, and curried after about the midway point. I brought very little in the way of snacks or sweets. (I don't recommend this approach, by the way. An important practice point I learned out there is that discipline can be as egocentric and obstructive as indulgence. It's wise to keep your diet simple, wholesome, and habitual. It's unwise to eat like a zek.) But breakfast came from a large trash bag, and it's these morning meals I remember with the most nostalgic affection. Because from those unpromising origins rose each morning a braw bowl of zenola. Zenola is a marriage of trail mix and cereal developed in the months before I left, for the express purpose of launching each day of practice. The ingredients supply essential nutrients deficient or absent in my other staples. And the rainbow of bright colours and flavours is a proper party when you're living on rice and beans. The recipe is as follows: 30 lbs rolled oats (I like thick-cut the best) 1 1/4 lb powdered milk 3 3/4 lbs salted mixed nuts 1 3/4 lb each: cranberry raisins dried apples dried apricots, bananas, or other fruit 1 1/4 lb crystalized ginger (If you don't require a metric tonne of zenola all at once, you can reduce these quantities proportionally to get the amount you want.) At a cup a-piece, this comes out to about a third again more than 100 breakfasts, but when you're living alone it's a good idea to bring more food than you think you'll need. (And also to store it in several secure places.) I almost always ate this in cold water, but you can use boiling water for a soft and steamy bowl. I find rolled oats most satisfying uncooked, but once or twice, on biting cold nights when I needed encouragement, I rustled up hot zenola and tea by the light of my candle. Under the strict daily regimen, this stuff became such a treat that I used it as incentive, denying myself the pleasure if I rose too late. Other times it was a reward, to celebrate milestone days or cheer me up in bleak moments. In all of these occasions, zenola was hearty and sustaining, and excellent support for practice.

Zenola

The best breakfast you can get out of a trash bag.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/zenola.html

#100DaysontheMountain, #ango, #food, #hermitpractice, #recipe, #Zen

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Zenola I brought rather austere food when I sat 100 Days on the Mountain. Lunch and dinner were an identical bowl of rice and beans, spiced up with hot sauce, and curried after about the midway point. I brought very little in the way of snacks or sweets. (I don't recommend this approach, by the way. An important practice point I learned out there is that discipline can be as egocentric and obstructive as indulgence. It's wise to keep your diet simple, wholesome, and habitual. It's unwise to eat like a zek.) But breakfast came from a large trash bag, and it's these morning meals I remember with the most nostalgic affection. Because from those unpromising origins rose each morning a braw bowl of zenola. Zenola is a marriage of trail mix and cereal developed in the months before I left, for the express purpose of launching each day of practice. The ingredients supply essential nutrients deficient or absent in my other staples. And the rainbow of bright colours and flavours is a proper party when you're living on rice and beans. The recipe is as follows: 30 lbs rolled oats (I like thick-cut the best) 1 1/4 lb powdered milk 3 3/4 lbs salted mixed nuts 1 3/4 lb each: cranberry raisins dried apples dried apricots, bananas, or other fruit 1 1/4 lb crystalized ginger (If you don't require a metric tonne of zenola all at once, you can reduce these quantities proportionally to get the amount you want.) At a cup a-piece, this comes out to about a third again more than 100 breakfasts, but when you're living alone it's a good idea to bring more food than you think you'll need. (And also to store it in several secure places.) I almost always ate this in cold water, but you can use boiling water for a soft and steamy bowl. I find rolled oats most satisfying uncooked, but once or twice, on biting cold nights when I needed encouragement, I rustled up hot zenola and tea by the light of my candle. Under the strict daily regimen, this stuff became such a treat that I used it as incentive, denying myself the pleasure if I rose too late. Other times it was a reward, to celebrate milestone days or cheer me up in bleak moments. In all of these occasions, zenola was hearty and sustaining, and excellent support for practice.

Zenola

The best breakfast you can get out of a trash bag.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/zenola.html

#100DaysontheMountain, #ango, #food, #hermitpractice, #recipe, #Zen

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Zenola The best breakfast you can get out of a trash bag.

Zenola

The best breakfast you can get out of a trash bag.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/zeno...

#100DaysontheMountain, #ango, #food, #hermitpractice, #recipe, #Zen

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Zenola I brought rather austere food when I sat 100 Days on the Mountain. Lunch and dinner were an identical bowl of rice and beans, spiced up with hot sauce, and curried after about the midway point. I brought very little in the way of snacks or sweets. (I don't recommend this approach, by the way. An important practice point I learned out there is that discipline can be as egocentric and obstructive as indulgence. It's wise to keep your diet simple, wholesome, and habitual. It's unwise to eat like a zek.) But breakfast came from a large trash bag, and it's these morning meals I remember with the most nostalgic affection. Because from those unpromising origins rose each morning a braw bowl of zenola. Zenola is a marriage of trail mix and cereal developed in the months before I left, for the express purpose of launching each day of practice. The ingredients supply essential nutrients deficient or absent in my other staples. And the rainbow of bright colours and flavours is a proper party when you're living on rice and beans. The recipe is as follows: 30 lbs rolled oats (I like thick-cut the best) 1 1/4 lb powdered milk 3 3/4 lbs salted mixed nuts 1 3/4 lb each: cranberry raisins dried apples dried apricots, bananas, or other fruit 1 1/4 lb crystalized ginger (If you don't require a metric tonne of zenola all at once, you can reduce these quantities proportionally to get the amount you want.) At a cup a-piece, this comes out to about a third again more than 100 breakfasts, but when you're living alone it's a good idea to bring more food than you think you'll need. (And also to store it in several secure places.) I almost always ate this in cold water, but you can use boiling water for a soft and steamy bowl. I find rolled oats most satisfying uncooked, but once or twice, on biting cold nights when I needed encouragement, I rustled up hot zenola and tea by the light of my candle. Under the strict daily regimen, this stuff became such a treat that I used it as incentive, denying myself the pleasure if I rose too late. Other times it was a reward, to celebrate milestone days or cheer me up in bleak moments. In all of these occasions, zenola was hearty and sustaining, and excellent support for practice.

Zenola

The best breakfast you can get out of a trash bag.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/zenola.html

#100DaysontheMountain, #ango, #food, #hermitpractice, #recipe, #Zen

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Zenola I brought rather austere food when I sat 100 Days on the Mountain. Lunch and dinner were an identical bowl of rice and beans, spiced up with hot sauce, and curried after about the midway point. I brought very little in the way of snacks or sweets. (I don't recommend this approach, by the way. An important practice point I learned out there is that discipline can be as egocentric and obstructive as indulgence. It's wise to keep your diet simple, wholesome, and habitual. It's unwise to eat like a zek.) But breakfast came from a large trash bag, and it's these morning meals I remember with the most nostalgic affection. Because from those unpromising origins rose each morning a braw bowl of zenola. Zenola is a marriage of trail mix and cereal developed in the months before I left, for the express purpose of launching each day of practice. The ingredients supply essential nutrients deficient or absent in my other staples. And the rainbow of bright colours and flavours is a proper party when you're living on rice and beans. The recipe is as follows: 30 lbs rolled oats (I like thick-cut the best) 1 1/4 lb powdered milk 3 3/4 lbs salted mixed nuts 1 3/4 lb each: cranberry raisins dried apples dried apricots, bananas, or other fruit 1 1/4 lb crystalized ginger (If you don't require a metric tonne of zenola all at once, you can reduce these quantities proportionally to get the amount you want.) At a cup a-piece, this comes out to about a third again more than 100 breakfasts, but when you're living alone it's a good idea to bring more food than you think you'll need. (And also to store it in several secure places.) I almost always ate this in cold water, but you can use boiling water for a soft and steamy bowl. I find rolled oats most satisfying uncooked, but once or twice, on biting cold nights when I needed encouragement, I rustled up hot zenola and tea by the light of my candle. Under the strict daily regimen, this stuff became such a treat that I used it as incentive, denying myself the pleasure if I rose too late. Other times it was a reward, to celebrate milestone days or cheer me up in bleak moments. In all of these occasions, zenola was hearty and sustaining, and excellent support for practice.

Zenola

The best breakfast you can get out of a trash bag.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/zenola.html

#100DaysontheMountain, #ango, #food, #hermitpractice, #recipe, #Zen

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Sobriety Kyôsaku You can get drunk on all kinds of stuff.

Sobriety Kyôsaku

You can get drunk on all kinds of stuff.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/sobr...

#addiction, #autonomy, #clear-seeing, #drugs, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #mindfulness, #renunciation, #river, #samsara, #sangha, #Zen

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Sobriety Kyôsaku An intoxicant is any external source that draws you deeper into yourself, your beliefs, your egocentrism, and away from direct experience of the real, present moment. Samsaric life is floating down a river of intoxicants; it’s difficult to go against the flow but it’s the only hope. – insight from a fellow Zen hermit in my Twitter sangha. _(Photo of Oregon's Rogue River courtesy of Hamad Darwish and Wikimedia Commons.)_

Sobriety Kyosaku

You can get drunk on all kinds of stuff.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/sobriety-kyosaku...

#addiction, #autonomy, #clear-seeing, #drugs, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #mindfulness, #renunciation, #river, #samsara, #sangha, #Zen

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Sobriety Kyôsaku An intoxicant is any external source that draws you deeper into yourself, your beliefs, your egocentrism, and away from direct experience of the real, present moment. Samsaric life is floating down a river of intoxicants; it’s difficult to go against the flow but it’s the only hope. – insight from a fellow Zen hermit in my Twitter sangha. _(Photo of Oregon's Rogue River courtesy of Hamad Darwish and Wikimedia Commons.)_

Sobriety Kyosaku

You can get drunk on all kinds of stuff.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/01/sobriety-kyosaku...

#addiction, #autonomy, #clear-seeing, #drugs, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #mindfulness, #renunciation, #river, #samsara, #sangha, #Zen

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