Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

Blanche Hartman

‘A monk shaving the head is symbolic of renunciation. But really what is to be renounced…
Awakening The Archive

I have been working with Charlie at Engage Wisdom for five and a half years. I…
The Rainy Season Starts

All the talk was of the coming rain, and it blew in right on schedule; the…
Ups And Downs

These days, I seem to wear shorts for at least six months out of the year.…
Sallie Jiko Tisdale

‘I pretend to accept my own death. Most senior practitioners do; many of them may even…
October

There is an incredible stillness that has arrived, as it often does at this time of…
Mountains and Waters Sutras

When I lived at Zen Center, I would eat lunch out in the courtyard every day…
Boxes

My sister and her husband have been doing sterling work – she being the only sibling…
Reaching For Resolution

‘As a professor, I detect a similar hope in the students who take my feminism classes,…
Suzuki Roshi

‘Soto way is to use everything in right purpose and to put everything [in] its own–…