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I have this friend who said, “I really want to come to your event, but...

Laziness is a thing that we don’t talk about enough, I think. It’s often something...

I think that at times we get caught up talking about the Buddha too much...

Today I’m going to talk to you about the Buddha. I think that at times...

This was a talk I gave at a store called Aquarius in the fall of...

This is a talk I gave at the One Mind Zen Hermitage if you...

I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. I’ve done many things that have...

I want to talk about the four foundations of mindfulness today.   This is based...

The Barrier That Has No Gate Case 2. Baizhang and the Fox* Every time Baizhang...

The Barrier That Has No Gate.  Case 1.  A monk asked Master Zhaozhou, "Does a...

“The Great Way is gateless, Approached in a thousand ways. Once past this checkpoint You...

A few months ago I took my seven year old stepson to meditation with me....

This is a list of five things we talk about that tend to get in...

The world has stopped. Well, it hasn’t really. But a whole lot of things have....

I did a series of daily talks during the Covid-19 lockdown. I wanted to do...

I heard this story from Bodhidharma's childhood recently and I wanted to share it. As...

I'm here to provide encouragement because we could all use some. The truth is that...

“Separate yourself from disturbance and face whatever appears before you.” -Hongzhi   Sometimes our being...

“The practice of true reality is simply to sit serenely in silent introspection.” “Here you...

2,550 (or so) years ago today a man sat under a tree. He saw a...

“The Great Way is gateless, Approached in a thousand ways. Once past this checkpoint You...

Some teenagers came to my door recently. They were Christian missionaries. I didn’t invite them...

It was the 5th century. About 1000 years after the Buddha’s death. And Buddhism was...

I've been doing public meditation events for four months. 38 people came to my event in...

"What is basically present is here and now. It does not depend on cultivating the...

Hongzhi (1091-1157) was a well known Zen Master in the Tsaotung lineage. It was in...

I don’t have my own temple or center or anything. There are several Buddhist centers...

This is a passage from a teaching by Master Han Shan called "The Maxims." What,...

People indignantly condemn thieves to steal material goods. I worry about the kind of thief...

The easy path is always so appealing. So why do I prefer the hard way?...