Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

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  • Overnight Rain

    My two talks in the last week went well enough. The Sunday morning online talk to…

  • Dogen

    ‘When the power of your continuous practice is not sufficient and you have not received the…

  • Caoshan

    ‘One day Caoshan came to his master to request permission to go on a pilgrimage.“Where are…

  • Lung-ya

    ‘A monk asked Lung-ya: “What did old masters attain when they entered the ultimate stage?” He…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Student F: Dogen Zenji, I think, wiped himself with one hand and used the other hand…

  • Anil Seth

    ‘It feels strange to be writing to you about the meaning of life while my mother…

  • Emily Jungmin Yoon

    We watch the moving topography of brutality, the red slopesand orbs mapping deaths from virus, from…

  • Dogen

    ‘In the continuous practice of the way of buddha ancestors, do not be concerned about whether…

  • Joan Sutherland

    ‘Awakening is something different from the projects of self-improvement and self-actualization many Westerners are used to;…

  • Sansheng

    A monk asked, “Why did the First Ancestor come from the west?” Sansheng said, “Spoiled meat…