Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

March 2026

  • Pema Chödrön

    ‘This poison is not just our personal misfortune, our fault, our blemish, our shame—it’s part of…

  • Dogen

    ‘Either silk or common cloth is used as the material for a robe, according to the…

  • Timothy Snyder

    ‘Decades from now historians will be debating why this war started, as we debate the origins…

  • Keizan

    Space, from the beginning, has not admitted even a needle;Vast, nonreliant, it is beyond all discussion.Do…

  • Nyogen Senzaki

    ‘When I mention Zen, some may think I am talking about something different from the general…

  • The Hidden Lamp

    ‘Once a monk on pilgrimage met an old woman living alone in a hut. The monk…

  • Sitting With War

    When I was growing up in England, there was a poignancy in any depiction of the…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Don’t try to stop the thinking when you are practicing zazen. Let it stop. If something…

  • Willa Blythe Baker

    ‘I lived in a Buddhist monastery for over a decade. I arrived feeling fearful and fractured,…

  • Muhammad Abdulsater

    ‘In a world where eating has become solitary and rushed, Ramadan restores something quietly radical: shared time. Iftar…