Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

personal

  • Two Weddings And An Ordination

    I am writing this on the first evening after the clocks went back. I was, as…

  • Winter Is Coming (California version)

    The atmospheric river came through on Sunday a week ago, as forecast, and it was a…

  • Ontology vs. Meontology?

    ‘“First philosophy” in the Western tradition is ontology, which asks the question of “being qua being,”…

  • Blanche Hartman

    ‘A monk shaving the head is symbolic of renunciation. But really what is to be renounced…

  • Awakening The Archive

    I have been working with Charlie at Engage Wisdom for five and a half years. I…

  • The Rainy Season Starts

    All the talk was of the coming rain, and it blew in right on schedule; the…

  • Ups And Downs

    These days, I seem to wear shorts for at least six months out of the year.…

  • Sallie Jiko Tisdale

    ‘I pretend to accept my own death. Most senior practitioners do; many of them may even…

  • October

    There is an incredible stillness that has arrived, as it often does at this time of…

  • Bessel van der Kolk

    ‘What we tend to leave out of most of our discussions about human functioning is to…