May 2021

  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘When doing zazen, you are an integral part of the universe and the essence of all…

  • Marilyn McDonald

    ‘The old kitchen had been condemned by the health department when the Becks owned the Springs.…

  • Dogen

    ‘Is the Way attained through the mind or through the body? The teaching schools say that,…

  • Lama Rod Owens

    ‘To love my anger means that I must love myself. This is what a loving and…

  • Susan Piver

    ‘We all know what it feels like to treat others this way and to be treated…

  • Deborah Landau

    So whatever’s the opposite of a Buddhist that’s what I am. Kindhearted, yes, but knee deep…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘Dogen constantly emphasizes that practice is shikan. Shikan is just wholeheartedness; it is experience, so practice is experience.…

  • Jenny Odell

    ‘Last week, after a meeting, I took the F streetcar from Civic Center to the Ferry…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘What I want to talk about now is how to orient your mind in practice. For…

  • The Best Of Times

    As someone who still usually wakes up at monk-o-clock, I appreciate how early it gets light…