practice

  • Yvonne Rand

    ‘Harry Roberts was a teacher who worked with many of us involved in planting the garden…

  • Here We Are

    There has been a heat wave this past week in San Francisco. That’s unusual enough for…

  • Soko Morinaga

    ‘Information collected on the subject of religion is worthless. Religion is, to the very end, something…

  • Plans

    At the beginning of the year, it looked like I would have a conflict this week.…

  • Norman Fischer

    ‘Trying to practice love and compassion, and letting go of anger, doesn’t mean acquiescing when harm…

  • The Blue Cliff Record

    ‘The master of Lotus Flower Peak cottage held out his staff and said to his disciples,…

  • Tao-ch’uan

    ‘When you’re in the ocean, why search for water? When you’re on the peak, why look…

  • San Francisco Summer

    We have had some pretty heavy-duty fog these past couple of weeks in San Francisco. It’s…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘When we are sitting, we do not follow our thoughts, nor do we stop them.  We…

  • Tara Brach

    ‘There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy…