Hymn For Haiti/Bobbi Humphrey

My first book, Kung Fu: The Master, came out in 1975. Its debut established me as a poet about the same time  as Bobbi Humphrey's first album, Blacks and Blues,  established her as a musician, a flutist  of remarkable skill.. Bobbi and I were friends. She wrote the introduction to my book. What sealed our relationship, however, was neither music nor poetry but the fact that both of us were devoted... Read more

A MIND LIKE WATER SEMINAR/GERMANY

Kitabu Roshi performing "WingSpan" from Zen Mushin Ryu:The East Sea/Germany Hamburg, Germany, March 2010 a weekend of   transformation. A MIND LIKE WATER/seminar Sadguru Sant Keshavadas paved the way. The video below was an introduction to the event. Videos to follow reflect a successful mission.   Another session in Germany It is  said that "travel expands your mind."... Read more

The Zen of Michael Jackson:A Celebration

Note: How quickly we forget that our sojourn on earth is short. How marvelous it is when we do something remarkable in that space between hello and goodbye. Here at the Soul Sword Zen Community we would like to pause and reflect on a soul who transfused us with his loving energy...Michael Jackson. Vernon Kitabu Turner "Kitabu Roshi" Michael Jackson gave all he had with each performance. Michael... Read more

David Carradine/Kwai Chang Caine Gone/The Legend Continues

To see one needs more than eyes.  Master Po demonstrated that THE WAY functions beyond the limitations of our physical senses.   "Looked for he cannot be seen."     Most people knew nothing about Shaolin Monks until David Carradine played the role of Kwai Chang Caine. Set in the old West and China, the Kung Fu series allowed westerners to peer into the distinctive culture... Read more

Juneteenth…Celebrate Emancipation Without Shame or Blame

We are all dwelling on a single spinning globe surrounded by endless space. Considering that truth, one would think we would be a close family by now. Mankind needs to take a closer look at what we share in common and less at where we differ. Kitabu Roshi   As children we used our imagination well. We became cowboys and Native-Americans, cops and robbers, ballerinas and doctors with ease. Now... Read more

BLESSED ARE THE PEACE-MAKERS.

Kitabu Roshi sits with a Buddhist Monk at the Wat Promkunaram Buddhist Temple in Arizona. -Photo by Reverend Jeanene McQuillen- The gyroscope was invented in 1852 by the French experimental physicist Leon Foucault (1819-1868) as part of a two-pronged investigation of the rotation of the earth. (On display at Bowdoit College)   As a child I was fascinated by a gyroscope spinning on... Read more

PRESIDENT BARRACK OBAMA/BLACK HAND CLAPPING

President Barrack Obama The First "American " President of The United States (AP photo) The world-wide lure of America is that it stands as a blazing light of hope to the rest of the world. It promises that all men have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness here. For centuries the promise was a glaring untruth. All men did not have such freedom or hope because all men were... Read more

Obama: “Not that one”-The One

One Person Makes a Difference. The election of Senator Barrack Obama to the presidency of The United States of America is far more than a political feat.  Sometimes  we repeat a universal truth so often that it becomes no more than an oft-repeated slogan. We are accustomed to the saying that Mankind is one. The evidence gathered by our eyes and ears and  by the daily news would suggest... Read more

Everyday Zen

Often people view the spiritual path as a way of escape. They imagine that if they had a breakthrough of some significance they would become removed from and immune to the changing circumstances of life. The truth is that view is just another form of delusion.  Read More →