November 2025

Koshin Paley Ellison

‘My teacher Genyu Kojima Roshi… has never once complimented me. Not once. Many times he has…
Taiyuan Fu

As Baofu was putting cucumbers in a basket, elder Taiyuan Fu came by. Baofu said,…
Sharon Salzburg

‘There’s such a pervasive feeling that “The suffering is intractable, so what could my contribution possibly…
Aleks Krotoski

‘In his 2024 book Why We Die, Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan describes “the characteristic arrogance that many physicists…
Caoshan

The formless body of complete illumination of the nature of awareness; Don’t use knowledge and views, misconstruing…
Issho Fujita

‘Zazen is much bigger and much deeper than the territory of conscious grasping. Its size and…
Zenkei Blanche Hartman

‘When things don’t go the way you want them, that’s where we’re dealing with our human…
Shohaku Okumura

‘To vow to save all beings doesn’t mean that we believe that we have the power…
November Radiance

I was going to start with, “I know I mention this every year, but this is…
Rujing

‘This is my first address of the winter season. Yet even now an old plum tree…