Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

  • Sitting in the rain

    It say something about the climate in California that it took a little over five months for…

  • Shohaku Okumura

    ‘Each being is unique and yet is interconnected with all beings, from the beginningless beginning to…

  • Setting Intentions

    One of the students I work with comes up with some really great questions. When I…

  • Tidying Up

    I left a gap in my schedule of posts, thinking I might say something about how…

  • Suzuki Roshi

    ‘I think most of us study Buddhism like something already given to us. We think what…

  • Sharon Salzberg

    ‘When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the…

  • Hongzhi

    ‘Traveling the world, meeting conditions, the self joyfully enters samadhi in all delusions and accepts its function,…

  • Christmas with Coyotes

    It would be an exaggeration to say that I was woken up on Christmas morning by…

  • The Monastic Life

    I don’t remember how exactly I came across this passage, but it was probably a couple…

  • Sekkei Harada

    ‘We know that Master Dogen did not lie down to rest for three years, yet he…