Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

  • The Acquiescent Mind

    Outwardly still while inwardly moving, Like a tethered colt, a trapped rat; The ancient sages pitied…

  • Shinshu Roberts

    ‘Doubt is essential to actualizing understanding. Truly productive doubt must bring us to a point in…

  • Red Pine

    ‘None of the things that fill our lives is by itself false. It is only our…

  • East Wind, West Wind

    I was thinking of Hongzhi’s phrase ‘like spring arising in everything’ as the title for this…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘Dogen’s purpose here is to confuse us, to deconstruct our ready-made fixed views. He’s not trying…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘Since I moved in this building, people ask me how do you feel [laughs]. But I…

  • Dogen

    ‘Wherever there is a world of sentient beings, there, inevitably, is the world of buddhas and…

  • Behind The Scenes

    I know that when I wrote the Ino’s Blog, much of the value people derived from…

  • Hoitsu Suzuki

    I have been around Hoitsu Roshi perhaps half a dozen times in my years at Zen…

  • The Mountain Seat

    This past weekend I spent many hours at Zen Center, mostly wearing my full ceremonial outfit,…