Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

  • Bernard Glassman

    ‘People think they’ve failed when something doesn’t work out the way they expected it to work…

  • Pride and joy for all

    I live just a couple of blocks from the Castro Theater in San Francisco, so for…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘When the clear mind is realized, when these feelings of love and compassion come forth truly,…

  • Chan Master Sheng Yen

    I like to delve into the library at Tassajara while I am there to see what…

  • Dogen

    ‘As for what is called magnanimous mind, this mind is like the great mountains or like…

  • When Preferences Are Cast Aside

    To founder in dislike and like is nothing but the mind’s disease – Hsin Hsin Ming…

  • Losing Another Friend

    While I was at Tassajara, news came through of Jordan’s decline. He had been battling cancer…

  • What I think about when I am running

    I thought about going for a run when I arrived at Tassajara on Memorial Day, but…

  • Becoming Butterflies

    When I am co-leading retreats at Tassajara, I feel that most of my job is to…

  • Joshu

    ‘A monk asked, “I ask you to say something about that which is immediately at hand.”…