practice

  • Sekito Kisen

    ‘You can’t attain it this way. You can’t attain it not this way. Trying to attain…

  • Damei

    ‘When Mazu heard that Damei lived on the mountain, he sent a monk to call upon…

  • Rev. angel Kyodo williams

    ‘Everything I see, everything I say about liberation comes from this very dharma, the same dharma…

  • Soyen Shaku

    ‘Dhyana then is a discipline in tranquillization. It aims at giving to a mind the time…

  • Joshu

    ‘The master questioned two new arrivals. The master asked the first one, “Have you been here…

  • No Complaints

    I know a few priests who have trained in Japan, and every now and again you…

  • Dogen

    ‘There has never yet been anyone who supposed time to be coming and going who has…

  • Going Inside

    There was an abrupt change in the schedule at the County Jail a few weeks ago,…

  • It Is The Time Of Flowers…

    … And flowers have arrived. I used that Dogen quote on my shuso ceremony invitation, and it came…

  • Cheri Huber

    ‘We are conditioned to believe that our two choices are to be perfect or not to…