Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

August 2026

  • Dogen

    ‘Remember, serving offerings to ancient buddhas and reading the old teachings may be equal in happiness…

  • Cal Revely-Calder

    ‘Much of our social life, our ways of making and sharing a world, orbits the face.…

  • Yefu

    Billions of offerings to buddhas create boundless benefaction.How can it compare to reading an ancient teaching?Yet,…

  • Meg Gawler

    ‘I was a student at Brandeis University outside of Boston. I was a sophomore, studying social…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘When we are unaware of impermanence and egolessness, the ego appears to be the center of…

  • August Sun

    This August has felt very much like last August: a huge, positively life-changing event is looming…

  • Huanlong

    ‘The Fifth Ancestor, Huangmei, had an assembly of seven hundred monks, but he passed the robe…

  • Koshin Paley Ellison

    ‘So much of our suffering comes from believing we should only be feeling one emotion at…

  • Yuval Noah Harari

    You have these people who constantly read all these conspiracy theories and fake news and so…

  • Soen Nakagawa

    Looking for serenityyou have cometo the monastery. Looking for serenityI am leaving the monastery. Kwatz! Stop…