July 2019

The Wind Blows Through The Empty Valley

Last week was by and large mercifully fog free in San Francisco, warm and with clear…
Dogen

‘Buddhas and ancestors of old were as we; we in the future shall be buddhas and…
Torei Enji

‘People may be of the present or the past, but the Way has no past or…
Songyong Sunim

Clear water flows over white rock, the autumn moon shines bright, so clear is the original…
Norman Fischer

‘To be a bodhisattva is to be a bodhisattva in training, with a very long way…
Katagiri Roshi

‘The human mind doesn’t have its own particular form; it is a state of being that…
Here Be Dragonflies

Happily, the weekend panned out very much as hoped, with rather good weather on the whole;…
Hui-neng

‘The teaching has no dualism, neither does the mind; the Way is pure, without any signs.…
Dale S. Wright

‘From an authentic Buddhist point of view, it matters little whether something can be identified as…
Cuiyan

‘A monk asked, “There are words and phrases everywhere and all of it is polluted. What…