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  • About Time

    The Dogen study group is looking at the Continuous Practice fascicle, as you will see from…

  • Overnight Rain

    My two talks in the last week went well enough. The Sunday morning online talk to…

  • Dogen

    ‘In the continuous practice of the way of buddha ancestors, do not be concerned about whether…

  • Upcoming Attractions

    With the turning of the seasons, I seem to be in the midst of bookings and…

  • Spring Greens

    The highlight of the week was undoubtedly going down to Tassajara on Monday for the Shuso…

  • Sun and Rain

    This week was quite something in the weather stakes. The weekend had been perfectly nice, and…

  • Longer Days

    We have passed through the clock change and the Spring Equinox, and it is starting to…

  • Cycles

    The week of the clock change started well: it was bright on Sunday, I had an…

  • Upgrade

    For a while now I have been wanting to replace my phone, whose screen was cracked…

  • Next Stop March

    One expression that I grew up with was “March comes in like a lion, and goes…