Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

  • Set Fair

    Last week I had dokusan with Fu, which is a way for me to check in about…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘You may think that you cannot express yourself within a particular form, but when we are…

  • Tatsugami Roshi

    ‘Dogen often called zazen sanzen, or just one word, san, which means “to practice, to examine…

  • Moon and Stars

    The Bay Area weather could not be better at the moment, with high pressure and warm…

  • What I think about when I am riding

    My usual cycling route out of the city takes me to the Panhandle, the first part…

  • Caoshan

    ‘A monk asked Caoshan, “How can one be in charge all the time?” Caoshan said, “Like…

  • Sharon Salzberg

    ‘In reality,  love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun. Love is a living capacity…

  • Kosho Uchiyama

    ‘In my late twenties, when I read [Dogen’s] Jishozanmai, I decided to leave home and become…

  • Dogen

    ‘It is kind speech to speak to sentient beings as you would to a baby…. If…

  • Byakuren Judith Ragir

    ‘What needs to be renounced as we enter a spiritual path? In the West, Buddhist practice…