Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

June 2017

  • What I think about when I am riding

    There is a well-known zen story I was reminded of this weekend. Here is one version…

  • Yunyan

    ‘Yunyan was making tea. Daowu asked him, “Who are you making tea for?” Yunyan said, “There’s…

  • Miazawa Kenji

    neither yielding to rain nor yielding to wind yielding neither to snow nor to summer heat…

  • What I think about when I am running

    ‘If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by…

  • Nishiari Bokusan

    ‘Every one of you is eager to be enlightened. How then do you get enlightened? Where…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘We can see the original principle of existence in the life of a tree, a pebble,…

  • Hui-neng

    ‘If people question you about principles, if they ask about being, reply with nonbeing; if they…

  • Silvia Boorstein

    ‘Maybe the whole of spiritual practice rests on remembering – over and over again – that…

  • Loving the Mountains

    Being at Tassajara feels like a skin I put on, and most times it feels like…

  • Lianhua

    Taking no notice of others, Throwing his staff over his shoulder, He goes straight ahead and…