Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

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  • The Practice of Zazen

    ‘Japanese monastic practice purposefully challenges the distinction between ceremony and meaning, between bodily form and understanding,…

  • Wendell Berry

    ‘Be joyful, though you’ve considered all the facts.’ (quoted in Less) Since Christmas is a part of…

  • Kobun Chino

    ‘One period of sitting is not your own sitting. You may feel it is your sitting,…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘So if you think enlightenment is just a personal experience, this idea of enlightenment is like…

  • Bands of Rain

    On Friday I was teaching on the Peninsula in the morning, before heading up to Wilbur.…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘What we call the conscious world is nothing but a provisional picture of the world produced…

  • Gesshin Greenwood

    ‘Whenever I see a monk or nun in robes, I feel encouraged. It reminds me that…

  • Here The Way Unfolds

    Rohatsu sesshin finished last week at City Center and Green Gulch (Tassajara always follows its own timing…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘When we have full understanding that each of us is living together with all beings, interconnected,…

  • Dogen

    ‘The way of water penetrates everywhere, above and below, vertically and horizontally. Still, in the sutras…