December 2019

  • Dharma Talk

    Today I am giving the Saturday talk at Zen Center, which is the first time I…

  • Dana Velden

    ‘To cook a meal for someone is to give them many gifts: the gift of your…

  • Issho Fujita

    ‘In non-gaining zazen, the importance is placed on the way one is, moment by moment, rather…

  • What If?

    Another week, another thought provoking New Yorker article.  I have written about virtual reality before, perhaps…

  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘You lack peace of mind because you’re running after an idea of total peace of mind.…

  • Diane Eshin Rizzetto

    ‘The value of working with this precept [the precept of not intoxicating, but cultivating a clear…

  • Mumon

    Don’t draw another’s bow, Don’t ride another’s horse, Don’t discuss another’s faults, Don’t explore another’s affairs.

  • Shinshu Roberts

    ‘We might observe that the stages of so-called sequential time are not actually available to us.…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘ “Therefore, water is in places that are not rivers and seas; it is just that,…

  • Joseph Hall

    ‘Two handed practice is not an official form in the Sotoshu manual, but it is one…