shundo

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘As you are listening to me you may feel you have understood, but when you leave…

  • Mohammed R. Mhawish

    ‘Reconstruction that restores roads but not representation will only re-create dependency. The next phase of Gaza’s…

  • Xuedou

    Reaching out your arms is climbing the ten-thousand-foot cliff.Oneness and differentiation are not necessarily fixed.The old…

  • Judy Lief

    ‘Being learned is great, but it’s not the point. Being a good meditator is great, but…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘During the sesshin, we try to make every possible effort to polish your practice for a…

  • Koshin Paley Ellison

    ‘Zen practice is not abstract, it’s deeply relational. There is the relationship with a teacher, but…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘The main point of my lecture this afternoon is that the usual understanding of practice as…

  • The Tail of the Typhoon

    We got woken up by a call very early on Friday; Ruth’s mother, who had been…

  • Roxane Gay

    ‘Nonviolence didn’t mean passivity. It was a strategy, intended to reveal the brutal contrast between the…

  • Raymond Carver

    And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To…