by Kim Ort | Feb 8, 2017 | Books, Contemplation, Inspiration, People, Spirituality, Topics
“I speak of the earth as subject, not as object. I am concerned with the maternal principle out of which we were born and whence we derive all that we are and all that we have. In our totality we are born of the earth. We are earthlings. The earth is our origin,...
by Kim Ort | May 18, 2016 | Humility, Photography, Practices, Spirituality, Zen Buddhism
During the meditation and writing retreat at Upaya Zen Center, we spent much of the day in silence. We could speak at dinner if we chose to, but breakfast and lunch were always in silence. During this time, we acknowledged others and the spaces we inhabited...
by Kim Ort | Aug 6, 2015 | Acceptance, Books, Essence, Humility, Spirituality, Zen Buddhism
Wabi-sabi refers to an elusive and elegant beauty. Wabi suggests a beauty of elegant imperfection. Sabi means loneliness or rather aloneness. Together, they suggest the beauty of ‘the withered, weathered, tarnished, scarred, intimate, coarse, earthly,...
