December 2020

  • Rebecca Solnit

    ‘The measure of our humanity is our ability to care for people unlike us, who are…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ”When you dip a water by this cup, you know, and when you say, “this is…

  • Sokei-An

    ‘We are the Lotus. All trees are the Lotus. All stars are the Lotus. The sun…

  • Dogen

    ‘On this night the Tathagata completed true awakening. With effort and dropping away body and mind,…

  • The Dharma Seat

    Since the end of the summer, I have not been doing so many formal activities, though…

  • Tiantong Zongjue

    White clouds end atthe frozen cliff’sedge. The essential luminositycuts through the darkness asthe bright moon followsthe…

  • The Thinking Mind

    When I lived at Tassajara, and we got up ridiculously early in the morning to sit…

  • Lama Willa Miller

    ‘To stop and watch appearances with equanimity and curiosity is a sea change. However, to become…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘”Emptiness,” the connectedness of all things, deepens everything by disclosing the complex foundations upon which all…

  • Issho Fujita

    ‘While we are sitting in zazen, we definitely have a feeling of disappointment and unsatisfactoriness, a…