Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

personal

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘When we practice in this hall, there is no teacher and no student. We are all…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘Rarely do we reside in no place. We think about what day of the week this…

  • Joe Moran

    ‘The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas believed that looking at other people’s faces was how we learned to…

  • Zenkei Blanche Hartman

    ‘The first three years I was doing zazen, I didn’t sit through a single period for…

  • Dogen

    ‘The purpose of awakening to the old stories of the Patriarchs of Zen is to modify…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘The first paragraph is the framework of whole Buddhism.  First paragraph: All—when all things are in…

  • The Nature Of Wind

    I feel a little self-conscious that when I write about my current life, the weather figures…

  • Nyogen Senzaki

    ‘Monks have no monopoly on Zen. Zen belongs to the world. Laymen and laywomen adherents shoud…

  • Marilyn McDonald

    ‘The old kitchen had been condemned by the health department when the Becks owned the Springs.…

  • The Best Of Times

    As someone who still usually wakes up at monk-o-clock, I appreciate how early it gets light…