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February 2021

February 16, 2021
“No Words Can Explain Enlightenment” - Niutou Farong Niutou Farong lived in the 7th century...
February 09, 2021
An Invitation for the Patriarch. This is Case 3 from the Book of Equanimity. The...
February 02, 2021
Bodhidharma’s Vast Emptiness This is Case 2 from the Book of Equanimity Emperor Wu asked...

January 2021

January 25, 2021
This is case 1 from the Koan collection called “the Book of Equanimity” Case 1....
January 11, 2021
I have this friend who said, “I really want to come to your event, but...
January 04, 2021
Laziness is a thing that we don’t talk about enough, I think. It’s often something...

December 2020

December 14, 2020
I think that at times we get caught up talking about the Buddha too much...
December 07, 2020
Today I’m going to talk to you about the Buddha. I think that at times...

November 2020

November 30, 2020
This was a talk I gave at a store called Aquarius in the fall of...
November 24, 2020
This is a talk I gave at the One Mind Zen Hermitage if you...
November 23, 2020
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. I’ve done many things that have...

August 2020

August 28, 2020
I want to talk about the four foundations of mindfulness today.   This is based...

June 2020

June 17, 2020
The Barrier That Has No Gate Case 2. Baizhang and the Fox* Every time Baizhang...
June 10, 2020
The Barrier That Has No Gate.  Case 1.  A monk asked Master Zhaozhou, "Does a...
June 03, 2020
“The Great Way is gateless, Approached in a thousand ways. Once past this checkpoint You...

May 2020

May 22, 2020
A few months ago I took my seven year old stepson to meditation with me....
May 20, 2020
This is a list of five things we talk about that tend to get in...
May 18, 2020
The world has stopped. Well, it hasn’t really. But a whole lot of things have....
May 15, 2020
I did a series of daily talks during the Covid-19 lockdown. I wanted to do...

August 2019

August 28, 2019
I heard this story from Bodhidharma's childhood recently and I wanted to share it. As...
August 20, 2019
I'm here to provide encouragement because we could all use some. The truth is that...

March 2019

March 12, 2019
“Separate yourself from disturbance and face whatever appears before you.” -Hongzhi   Sometimes our being...
March 08, 2019
“The practice of true reality is simply to sit serenely in silent introspection.” “Here you...

December 2018

December 08, 2018
2,550 (or so) years ago today a man sat under a tree. He saw a...

November 2018

November 07, 2018
“The Great Way is gateless, Approached in a thousand ways. Once past this checkpoint You...
November 01, 2018
Some teenagers came to my door recently. They were Christian missionaries. I didn’t invite them...

October 2018

October 19, 2018
It was the 5th century. About 1000 years after the Buddha’s death. And Buddhism was...
October 10, 2018
I've been doing public meditation events for four months. 38 people came to my event in...
October 05, 2018
"What is basically present is here and now. It does not depend on cultivating the...

September 2018

September 21, 2018
Hongzhi (1091-1157) was a well known Zen Master in the Tsaotung lineage. It was in...
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