Author Seth Harwood has given the Horse and the Burma is Important Project a nice little plug on his podcast:
“Couple of words here for the Burma Is Important Project. Burma IS important. Some serious shit is goin’ down over there. My man Gomyo the Hoodie Monk sent me this this week. Monks are getting attacked [...]
Thanks to reader Frank Dries, who sent this little gem. He writes:
100% Zen, in a Polish hotel — thanx to Zen, a pair of clean pyjamas and little time. It’s so easy, check the little fellow’s lotus.His legs!
(Found this in on the bed of my hotel room in Poznan, Poland. I Like what your doing. [...]
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Dig this ad for Wes Anderson’s new comic “spiritual quest” film, The Darjeeling Limited.
In it, Owen Wilson (a fave) is depicted bandaged and with palms together in the Buddhist gesture of gassho, which is meant to convey gratitude.
I woulda gone and seen this anyway, but now my interested is extra-piqued.
If you’ve seen it, let us [...]
A while back, the Horse covered Creative Labs’ mp3 player called — ahem — “Zen.” (See “Find your Zen,” here.)
In covering it, we originally wrote that “the Worst Horse can’t tell you whether or not these are good products. But we might suggest you instead ‘find your Zen’ on a meditation cushion.”
Full disclosure time: I’ve [...]
Weird to see this on-line ad from Delta for their Sky Miles credit card, in which the most prominent element is someone who can’t use any kind of credit card at all.
The figure in yellow is a Japanese monk, doing takuhatsu, which is a traditional form of begging. This allows the monks to live, and [...]
