Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

  • Koun Franz

    ‘There’s no place you can go that is not your life. You are not currently in…

  • Leaving Home, Attaining The Way

    I was offering the zazen instruction at Zen Center last Saturday for the first time in a while,…

  • Jakusho Kwong

    ‘While the Chinese ideogram for shukke [the word used in priest ordination] means “leaving home,” this word also…

  • A Day In The Mountains

    One of my dharma friends, when we were discussing going down to Tassajara for Allison’s shuso ceremony,…

  • Dogen

    ‘Here is a story. An ancient raised a fan and said, “Even though this has a…

  • Lingering Rain

    I had two consecutive days of wearing my full ceremonial robes at the end of last…

  • Gesshin Greenwood

    ‘A lot of people I meet in America seem turned off by the idea of Buddhist…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘It looks like a very impractical waste of time to sit here all day on your…

  • Sylvia Boorstein

    ‘If my mind didn’t cling, I would be totally fearless. Nothing would frighten me, because there…

  • No Wind

    The past week has seen the kind of endless blue skies that I do not get…