The Evolution and De-evolution of Kogen

Kogen in pictures

The beginning: Ameland January 2009

ZMC Arrival
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
Attention Shusso!
Winter 2010
Time to go
Dancing fool
Original Face
Phoenix Butterfly

The REAL ZenCowboyS

I have never seen myself as the owner of the moniker “ZenCowboy”. I believe it’s one of those archetypes that was evident the moment Eastern Spiritual traditions hit Southwestern “Lone Cowboy” traditions.

I’m A Zen Cowboy. Not THE Zen Cowboy.

A simple Google search will produce:

At least two Zen Cowboy musicians:

Chuck Pyle

& Jimmie Dale Gilmore.

Michael W. Domis published a Zen Cowboy book:
Ken Wolverton has a Zen Cowboy short story blog:

There is a Zen Cowboy Clothing Company

And a Zen Cowboy Design Company

As I said, there are lots of Zen Cowboys out there. And that’s cool.

BUT right now I am pleased as punch that if you type “zencowboy” into Google, the middle of the screen gives you video results that look like this:

Me and Jeff Bridges side by side as ZenCowboyS!
That’s not just cool, that’s COOL BEANS!

A Desert Bird's Winter Weekend: More Pictures, Few Words

By The Time You Read This . . .

I will be off into the woods at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center for a much needed long weekend of sitting and silence.

I haven't been up since last November. It will be good to reconnect with everyone there.

Including myself.

"Who is the self that I will be reconnecting with?"

Dude, just shut up with the questions and sit!!

Morning Coffee w/ Poetry & Birds

Lullaby of Entropy

How do you pray for
faith?
Wind without sound
wakes voices from other
things.
Earn your way
back into being
by saying
the silence after the
music.


Be Generous
In Your Thoughts, Deeds, And Things

No one understands
the subtle work of small grey birds--
what will count
is the tenderness evoked
in those who come after
remembered breath, unconfused words.
All things fear not to live.
Awareness, not fear,
is our humanity.


Poems by Terrance Keenan in his wonderful book St. Nadie in Winter: Zen Encounters with Loneliness