SPR RO Rod MacIver A quiet book for a noisy time / The Tao Te Ching Journal, now available for pre-order As I have worked on this journal over the last year, it has amazed me how often the Tao has suggested a different course than the one I had…
GEN RO Rod MacIver Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. Because here, all things follow their own way. The wildflowers bloom-no hand plants them. The white clouds drift-no one drives them…
SCI GEN SPR MDA RO Rod MacIver Ikkyū and the unselfconscious rhythm of life Rain softens the dusk, moonlight slips through clouds -nothing to explain, the river sings itself into night. — Ikkyū (Japanese Zen…
SPR RO Rod MacIver What the Current Knows Some days the river carries you. Some days you push against it and blame life.
SPR RO Rod MacIver What the Quiet Ones Know To know that you do not know is the highest knowledge. To think you know when you don’t is more common.
MDA SPR RO Rod MacIver The Tao Te Ching Journal is almost ready to publish The reality is that this work — the Tao Te Ching Journal, this Substack, Zen Mountain Journal — could not exist without the support of…
ART SPR MDA RO Rod MacIver A peasant’s shack, a deserted road, I loaf in my old clothes Heron Brush Painting I
HUM SPR RO Rod MacIver Long after we’re gone, peace remains. The deep peace Found on mountaintops As night arrives Another in the endless cycle Of dark and light. Long before I came here to sit…
