Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

June 2026

  • Baizhang

    A monk asked, “How can a person gain freedom?”Baizhang said, “If you attain it at this…

  • Yuval Noah Harari

    ‘It’s basically the biggest psychological and social experiment in human history that we are conducting on…

  • Jane Hirshfield

    The heart’s reasonsseen clearly,even the hardestwill carryits whip-marks and sadnessand must be forgiven. As the drought-starvedeland…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘When we think about something we take a point of the view. We form an opinion.…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘Buddhism is not just understanding what life is. If you understand what life is, what you…

  • Around the Solstice

    Days around the solstice are quite simple here. When I get up it is starting to…

  • Dogen

    ‘Buddhas and ancestors of old were as we; we in the future shall be buddhas and…

  • Koshin Paley Ellison

    ‘Everything can be an offering. Our discomfort. Our self-consciousness. Our nervousness before we speak. Our excitement.…

  • Mara Gay

    ‘In more recent years, an increasingly ideological Supreme Court began issuing rulings that weakened the Voting…

  • Zhenxie

    The sun brightensthe solitary peak,blue.The moon’s facein the valley stream,cold.The intimate vastness of the Buddhascannot fit…