Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

  • The Language of Ritual

    The moon is waxing again. Dogen’s commentary on the eighth precept, ‘I vow not to be…

  • The Language of Ritual

    Continuing with Dogen’s commentary phrases for the grave precepts: the fourth precept, ‘I vow to refrain…

  • Sakyong Mipham

    ‘Unless we train it, the mind does the minimum necessary to fulfil a function. In that…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘To practice is not to collect things and put them in your basket, but rather to…

  • The Language of Ritual

    This is the time of the full moon, and the Ryaku Fusatsu ceremony performed at Zen Center connects…

  • Calendar spring-cleaning

    In case you are not inclined to visit other pages on the site regularly, I would…

  • Soyen Shaku

    ‘Buddhist ethics is the simplest thing to practice in the world. It has nothing mysterious, nothing…

  • Michael Stone

    ‘The vortex in a stream is a structure that is created out of the swirling gravitational…

  • The Language of Ritual

    The shuso ceremony, as I have mentioned before, marks the point when a student, fielding questions from…

  • What I think about when I am driving

    I have spent much more time in cars recently than I usually care to, even since…