ZEN!

And Poetry!

Zen monk and Poet Brooke McNamara has a lovely chat with Robbie about many things, among them:

• Sacred ritual
• Oceans of Love
• The student teacher relationship
• Paths of Spirit and Soul
• Publishing a poem a day
• Unorthodox sentient beings
• ...and Zen

Brookes Website
Awakening to the Poetic, Brookes online poetry course

Recommendations

From Brooke

CULTIVATING THE EMPTY FIELD: The Silent Illumination of Zen Buddhist Master Hongzhi - Taigen Dan Leighton

The Creative Act: A Way of Being - Rick Rubin

From Robbie

Mother! - Darren Aronofsky, and “friends”.

A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin

I just have to say, the cover art on the current edition of A Wizard of Earthsea is the blandest, saddest piece of weak soulless Harry Potter wannabe nonsense. Please don’t, as they say, reject this text based on its appearance,