practice

  • Marilyn McDonald

    ‘The old kitchen had been condemned by the health department when the Becks owned the Springs.…

  • Susan Piver

    ‘We all know what it feels like to treat others this way and to be treated…

  • The Best Of Times

    As someone who still usually wakes up at monk-o-clock, I appreciate how early it gets light…

  • Soko Morinaga

    ‘Many people are willing to learn techniques that help them live their lives. But the person…

  • Alison Gopnik

    ‘I think that kind of open-ended meditation and the kind of consciousness that it goes with…

  • Corey Ichigen Hess

    ‘Out in the world, no one cares if you had kensho. No one cares how hard…

  • A Second Blossoming

    A typhoon came across the Pacific in our direction last week. We had some grey and…

  • Kodo Sawaki

    ‘Once you’ve been taught a good posture, you feel gratitude and spontaneously do gassho. You feel…

  • Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

    ‘It wasn’t until I officiated my first Jukai ceremony—lay initiation for students—that living a life of…

  • Lama Rod Owens

    ‘When I am speaking about sangha, I am reminding people that when we gather together as…