Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

  • Dogen

    ‘Monks in zazen do not turn their heads to look and see who is entering or…

  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘It’s an idea of the mind to believe that the ego can escape itself and project…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘As the Buddhist tradition evolved, relations between the two basic types of meditation were worked out…

  • Reasons To Be Cheerful

    After my last teaching session on Wednesday, I went out to pick up my weekly bread…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    ‘A community of practitioners traditionally is called a “pure and clean, great ocean of people.” Don’t…

  • Dogen

    ‘Just let dharma be the same as food, and let food be the same as dharma.…

  • Continued Stillness

    I have continued to feel lucky with the roams. This past weekend was warm, windless, and…

  • Karen Shoji Robbie

    ‘I learned this koan off by heart. Allowing it to seep into my skin and bones.…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘In my zazen, I sometimes feel that I completely understand what Dogen Zenji is saying in…

  • Two Weddings And An Ordination

    I am writing this on the first evening after the clocks went back. I was, as…