December 2023

Han-shan

Snow piles up against my door; at night I tend the stove This body is here…
Kosho Uchiyama

‘Practicing zazen is the true gate to playing in this samadhi of the self that is…
Landmarks

Not for the first time, I spent Christmas week at someone else’s house, looking after a…
Sekito Kisen

‘You can’t attain it this way. You can’t attain it not this way. Trying to attain…
Shodo Harada

‘We cannot say that the mind is empty and then try to guard that state of…
Suzuki Roshi

‘This kind of practice is true practice. Or else there will not be no need to…
Pico Iyer

‘I think my greatest teacher is silence. Silence seems to dissolve me and open me up…
Genro

He walked the blade of a sword; He stepped on the ice of a frozen river; He entered…
Shohaku Okumura

‘We cannot avoid understanding because we are human beings, and the human brain produces thoughts. This…
Dogen

‘The Buddha Lands of the ten directions are just dharma blossoms. Here, all buddhas of the…