Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘When thoughts, judgments, or evaluations arise in zazen and we engage with them, there is separation…

  • What I think about when I am riding

    About a month ago I felt like I had hit the sweet spot. After many months of…

  • Isshu Miura

    ‘Our great masters of olden times have described the experience [of kensho] in various ways. One…

  • Dogen

    ‘In general, when you are a beginner you cannot fathom the buddha way. Your assumptions do…

  • Radical Dharma

    ‘The most important thing to unpack is what would draw people into this ever-deepening path? What…

  • Road to Heaven

    ‘One of the nuns at Lungwang Temple told us that Yuan-chao was living in an adobe…

  • Wedding and Water

    These are the days of fragile sunshine in San Francisco, so I was glad to be…

  • Think of not thinking

    This is what I was referring to in yesterday’s post: A few years ago I met…

  • Radical Dharma

    ‘As an activist academic, I often cringe at such touch-feely sentiment. There is no time for…

  • Birth – Death – Nirvana

    On Sunday, Zen Center hosted Blanche’s funeral service. It was not surprising to see a great…