December 2021

Yunmen

‘The minute you see some old monk open his mouth, you should shut him right up.…
Off For A Few Days

I am not prone to catastrophising, but I was convinced, with the way the new variant…
Dogen

‘Remain solitary without dependency and drop off all of reality. Mixed together within the ten thousand…
Shodo Harada

‘People are constantly in a state of desire, and that makes us confused and unclear. Even…
All In The Mind

Another recent New Yorker article got many of my neurons firing – it was all about…
David Wagoner

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is…
Shohaku Okumura

‘Enlightened or deluded, we are living out our as-it-isness, and yet we are always blind to…
Dale S. Wright

‘At earlier stages of “self-” cultivation, where one hopes to achieve something for oneself, the merit…
Around The Panhandle

The rain has set in again, and it looks like it will stick around over the…
Katagiri Roshi

‘When we live in the vow we constantly live in our lives, seeking our own true nature, the…