personal

  • What I think about when I am running

    It feels a little like cheating when I use public transport to take me somewhere to…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘People often ask me if zazen can ever be of any practical use in these complex…

  • Kobun Chino

    ‘We sit to make life meaningful. The significance of our life is not experienced in striving…

  • Coming and Going

    It has been almost a year now that I have been commuting across the bay three…

  • Clouds and Water

    It seemed to be auspicious timing to get out of town on Friday morning and be…

  • Rev. angel Kyodo williams

    ‘I interpret the November 2016 election as a moment of reckoning that we’ve needed for a…

  • Hui-Neng

    ‘Stopping the mind and contemplating quietude is pathological; it is not Ch’an. Sitting all the time…

  • What I think about when I am running

    In a couple of my earliest posts, I alluded to the difficulties I have sometimes had…

  • Dzogchen Ponlop

    ‘Because we are making this journey to discover who and what we are, we have to…

  • Bankei

    ‘Not a single one of you people at this meeting is unenlightened. Right now, you’re all…