Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

April 2026

  • Pamela Ayo Yetunde

    ‘Reflecting on the five remembrances is a fact check, and this helped me become more authentic…

  • Tassajara Fire

    ‘At the end of the Spring 1978 practice period there was a disastrous fire at Tassajara…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘Bodhisattva. This is the next word, is one who has awakened and who has given everything…

  • Mark O’Connell

    ‘The OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has invested $180 million of his own fortune in Retro Biosciences, a…

  • Galway Kinnell

    The budstands for all things,even for those things that don’t flower,for everything flowers, from within, of…

  • Preparing to Teach

    I can’t say that I feel ready for the class that starts this morning. I don’t…

  • Dogen

    ‘Once, when I was in Song China, practicing on a long sitting platform, I observed the…

  • Torei Zenji

    ‘When I, a student of Dharma, look at the real form of the universe, all is…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘It is necessary for you to follow some rules, you know. And you should have some…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘Buddha-nature is not something solid or immovable, but rather an energy that motivates us to practice-and…