Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

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  • Izumi Shikibu

    Through the yearsI’ve become used to sorrow:there was not one springI didn’t leave behindthe flowers.

  • bell hooks

    ‘To work for peace and justice we begin with the individual practice of love, because it…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘In our practice we do not like to be caught by some rules. Nevertheless, we make…

  • Spring Cleaning

    So we settle into a springtime punctuated by news of more war and destruction. The clocks…

  • Pema Chödrön

    ‘This poison is not just our personal misfortune, our fault, our blemish, our shame—it’s part of…

  • Dogen

    ‘Either silk or common cloth is used as the material for a robe, according to the…

  • Timothy Snyder

    ‘Decades from now historians will be debating why this war started, as we debate the origins…

  • Keizan

    Space, from the beginning, has not admitted even a needle;Vast, nonreliant, it is beyond all discussion.Do…

  • Nyogen Senzaki

    ‘When I mention Zen, some may think I am talking about something different from the general…

  • The Hidden Lamp

    ‘Once a monk on pilgrimage met an old woman living alone in a hut. The monk…