Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

practice

  • About Time

    The  New Yorker provides me with regular intellectual stimulation, but I do sometimes get exasperated with…

  • Blanche Hartman

    ‘I noticed somewhere in the early years of my practice that my big effort was to…

  • Toni Packer

    ‘Seeing is never from memory. It has no memory. It is looking now. The total organism…

  • Dogen’s Five-Part Harmony

    ‘To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to…

  • What I think about when I am running

    It feels a little like cheating when I use public transport to take me somewhere to…

  • Shodo Harada

    ‘People often ask me if zazen can ever be of any practical use in these complex…

  • Coming and Going

    It has been almost a year now that I have been commuting across the bay three…

  • Clouds and Water

    It seemed to be auspicious timing to get out of town on Friday morning and be…

  • Hui-Neng

    ‘Stopping the mind and contemplating quietude is pathological; it is not Ch’an. Sitting all the time…

  • What I think about when I am running

    In a couple of my earliest posts, I alluded to the difficulties I have sometimes had…