personal

  • Tara Brach

    ‘Even when it’s hard to appreciate goodness in someone, we can send lovingkindness anyway. At first…

  • Blanche Hartman

    ‘When I first met Suzuki Roshi, I thought, “I want to be like him!” The best…

  • Danxia Tianran

    ‘Each of you here has a place to put your cushion and sit. Why do you…

  • The Beginning of Spring

    The blossoms started coming out in San Francisco in spite of last week’s rain, or perhaps…

  • The Passengers in the Last Car

    This week has been on the wet side of things. I got rained on while riding…

  • About Time

    The  New Yorker provides me with regular intellectual stimulation, but I do sometimes get exasperated with…

  • I am an Immigrant

    My protesting days were mostly several decades ago; the early eighties was a rich time to…

  • Blanche Hartman

    ‘I noticed somewhere in the early years of my practice that my big effort was to…

  • Toni Packer

    ‘Seeing is never from memory. It has no memory. It is looking now. The total organism…

  • Dogen’s Five-Part Harmony

    ‘To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to…