personal
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Tara Brach
‘Even when it’s hard to appreciate goodness in someone, we can send lovingkindness anyway. At first…
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Blanche Hartman
‘When I first met Suzuki Roshi, I thought, “I want to be like him!” The best…
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Danxia Tianran
‘Each of you here has a place to put your cushion and sit. Why do you…
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The Beginning of Spring
The blossoms started coming out in San Francisco in spite of last week’s rain, or perhaps…
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The Passengers in the Last Car
This week has been on the wet side of things. I got rained on while riding…
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About Time
The New Yorker provides me with regular intellectual stimulation, but I do sometimes get exasperated with…
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I am an Immigrant
My protesting days were mostly several decades ago; the early eighties was a rich time to…
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Blanche Hartman
‘I noticed somewhere in the early years of my practice that my big effort was to…
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Toni Packer
‘Seeing is never from memory. It has no memory. It is looking now. The total organism…
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Dogen’s Five-Part Harmony
‘To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to…
