Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

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  • Plans

    At the beginning of the year, it looked like I would have a conflict this week.…

  • Koun Ejo

    I’m just a festering mass, a beast amongst humans. For years I minced barefoot, adopting some…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘Trying to practice love and compassion, and letting go of anger, doesn’t mean acquiescing when harm…

  • Keizan Jokin

    ‘Both body and mind drop off in zazen.  It is far beyond the form of sitting…

  • The Blue Cliff Record

    ‘The master of Lotus Flower Peak cottage held out his staff and said to his disciples,…

  • Tao-ch’uan

    ‘When you’re in the ocean, why search for water? When you’re on the peak, why look…

  • Jenny Odell

    ‘An ecological understanding allows us to identify “things” – rain, cloud, river – at the same…

  • Dogen

    ‘When you move mountains, rivers and earth, as well as the sun, the moon, and stars…

  • Anna Akhmatova

    Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold, Death’s great black wing scrapes the air, Misery gnaws to the…

  • San Francisco Summer

    We have had some pretty heavy-duty fog these past couple of weeks in San Francisco. It’s…