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  • New Vistas

    For various self-care reasons, I did not run for three weeks, after my weekend at Wilbur.…

  • Lingering Rain

    I had two consecutive days of wearing my full ceremonial robes at the end of last…

  • East Wind, West Wind

    I was thinking of Hongzhi’s phrase ‘like spring arising in everything’ as the title for this…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Since I moved in this building, people ask me how do you feel [laughs]. But I…

  • Behind The Scenes

    I know that when I wrote the Ino’s Blog, much of the value people derived from…

  • Hoitsu Suzuki

    I have been around Hoitsu Roshi perhaps half a dozen times in my years at Zen…

  • The Mountain Seat

    This past weekend I spent many hours at Zen Center, mostly wearing my full ceremonial outfit,…

  • Returning Empty-Handed

    I had been thinking of this title for the post even before realising that the Dogen…

  • The Nature Of Wind

    Zachary leaned over at the end of Monday’s sitting on the Embarcadero and name-checked Master Baoche.…

  • Rain and Rainbows

    I don’t mind the quirks of the calendar that have me going up to Wilbur only…