Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

  • Mindful of Transiency

    The city was red all over this past weekend, what with the lunar New Year and…

  • Year of the Dragon

    I traded out my rain clothes for cold weather gear – after more drenching, we have…

  • Sun and Rain

    Tomorrow will be the last of the Dogen classes; I have really enjoyed hosting the conversation,…

  • Sitting and Settling

    At a month out from the solstice, we are starting to see some appreciable difference in…

  • Knee-Deep In Dogen

    My class starts tomorrow, and I have been reading commentaries, character-by-character translation studies, and other random…

  • Into 2024

    Miraculously, I managed to stay awake until midnight on New Year’s Eve – for the first…

  • Landmarks

    Not for the first time, I spent Christmas week at someone else’s house, looking after a…

  • A Wet One

    A couple of days after the trip to Tassajara, I woke up with an enormous headache.…

  • A Valley Full Of Leaves

    As I know I have written about each time I have done it over the years,…

  • Buddhas and Buddhas-in-training

    The first week of December is traditionally the time when Buddhists sit for seven days to…