practice

  • The Wind Blows Through The Empty Valley

    Last week was by and large mercifully fog free in San Francisco, warm and with clear…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘From an authentic Buddhist point of view, it matters little whether something can be identified as…

  • To the Top of the City

    Coming into this weekend, I felt like I had a lot of time and space –…

  • Chan Master Sheng Yen

    ‘The Sanskrit word for fundamental ignorance, avidya, means ‘not-clear.’ What we are unclear about is the…

  • Lou Hartman

    ‘You can’t stop your mind – I think we have all realised that. But you can…

  • A Blast Of Summer Weather

    My habit has been to schedule Roaming Zen alternately on Saturdays and Sundays, as some of…

  • The Morning Schedule

    In the end, I woke up very early on Saturday morning, bothered by back pain, so…

  • Zazen Instruction

    While I was at the Gen X conference recently, I had a long chat with Zen…

  • Charlotte Joko Beck

    ‘Anxiety is always a gap between the way things are and the way we think they…

  • David Michie

    ‘We continue to believe in the superstition of consumerism: the shared, misguided belief that the golden…