April 2019

Suzuki Roshi

‘So even though you sit, you know, and watching something like sunflower [laughs]– someone was looking,…
Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘We are constantly shoveling into our minds more things to react to; more things to think,…
Vincent Katz

Everyone takes the subway, and you can look up, And look at all the people, and…
Spending Money

Following my urges from last week, I saw a bike that totally fitted the bill for…
Dogen

‘Quietly think over whether life and all things that arise together with life are inseparable or…
Linji

‘The mind ground can go into the ordinary, into the holy, into the pure, into the…
Fenyang

‘When will you ever stop competing? Before you realize, the scenery of spring had turned to…
Riding to Green Gulch

My enthusiasm for the Zen-a-thon ride was tempered slightly as it approached, once I had seen…
Shohaku Okumura

‘Even though our day-to-day activity is incomplete, without it there’s no Buddha’s mind, no Buddha’s enlightenment.…
Setcho

Let the elders knit their brows as they will; For the moment, let the state be…