practice

  • Corey Ichigen Hess

    ‘Release wherever you are stuck, anywhere you feel tense. Even if it makes no sense to…

  • San Francisco Days

    Today marks twenty years since I first came to San Francisco. On the flight over from…

  • Maylie Scott

    ‘If you are somewhat familiar with the Heart Sutra, you can hear this all being played…

  • Time Changes

    Obviously the title is just me being provocative – since Dogen affirms in Uji that time…

  • Issho Fujita

    ‘There is no other need to reach a certain state of mind as a goal or…

  • Body Memory

    On Saturday I had set my alarm early for the sitting, and, things being what they…

  • Sitting

    At a recent corporate meditation, I drew out a graph on a white board, following something…

  • Wind, Water, Fire and Earth

    It had seemed that California might have escaped the worst of the fires this year, but…

  • Vanessa Smith Bennett

    ‘If we can allow ourselves the space and acceptance to be multifaceted, we will experience life…

  • Joseph Hall

    ‘So here’s what I learned about bells.  You always have the option of being a monk,…