Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

December 2019

  • Soko Morinaga

    ‘Awakening to your own original face – “enlightenment’” – does not mean being able to explain…

  • Effortless Effort

    Much as I love reading the New Yorker for learning about new things, intellectual stimulation, and…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘The “joy” in joyful effort is crucial. It implies… a rising mind, a happy and easeful…

  • Brooke Astor

    I am old and I have had more than my share of good and bad: I’ve…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘Seeing all things wisely, as “empty” of their “own-being,” the bodhisattva begins to live differently in…

  • Dogen

    ‘The power of trust is to be fooled by the self and have nowhere to escape.…

  • Sekkei Harada

    ‘There are many forms of practice that may look like Zen practice, but the practice of…

  • The Holy Hallway

    Today is the day when Zen Center commemorates the death of Suzuki Roshi, forty-eight years ago…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘Common sense tells us that water is in a river, ocean, lake, or bowl, and that…

  • Keizan Jokin

    ‘You may think, “The Way of the Buddha patriarchs distinguishes individuals and capacities. We are not…