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May 2018

May 18, 2018
        There are two Suzukis who stand large at the dawn of...
May 18, 2018
    Jan & I have spent some time of late exploring Middle Eastern cuisines -...
May 17, 2018
    The other day I gave a talk on the Ten Oxherding Pictures. It...
May 15, 2018
    Kuoan Shiyuan’s Ten Oxherding Pictures In Zen’s history there have been a number...
May 13, 2018
  It was on this day in 1373 that Julian of Norwich recovered from a...
May 12, 2018
    Zen priest Claire Gesshin Greenwood asked on Facebook what exactly was the source of...
May 11, 2018
          Here are some parallel sayings from the Dao De Jing and...
May 10, 2018
  An old and dear friend sent me a link to a reading of Wallace...
May 06, 2018
        The Day I Met Kali A Meditation on a Naturalistic Mysticism...
May 05, 2018
    Today is Cinco de Mayo. Out on the inter webs, if you're moving...
May 03, 2018
      The Reverend Gyokei Yokoyama a Soto Zen priest currently serving the North...
May 02, 2018
          Some time ago I was corresponding with a Catholic priest...
May 01, 2018
    As it happens, it was on this day in 1394, the Zen priest...

April 2018

April 30, 2018
        Zazen Yojinki Points to Watch in Zazen A classic Zen meditation...
April 29, 2018
The other day I was visiting with my friend Gyokei Yokoyama, the resident minister at...
April 26, 2018
            Okay, not really a "Buddhist" Hume. But, there are...
April 24, 2018
    In some circles there is quite a lot of back and forth of...
April 24, 2018
      Daniel Terragno is a Zen teacher within the Diamond Sangha. We are...
April 23, 2018
Zazenkai Join us for a day of Zen meditation Saturday 28 April, 2018 9am to...
April 22, 2018
      This morning I attended services at the Long Beach Buddhist Church. The...
April 21, 2018
          Thursday I was invited to talk about my experiences as...
April 19, 2018
  Huangbo said to his assembly “You are all slurping up brewer’s dregs. If you’re...
April 18, 2018
  For me the most effective way of being in the world is to move...
April 15, 2018
      Bow First, Ask Questions Later: Ordination, Love, and Zen Monastic Training in...
April 13, 2018
    On Facebook I recently was reading someone whom I especially admire for his...
April 12, 2018
Nondual reality includes subject and object, each itself and freely transposing with the other; first...
April 11, 2018
  Stretch a little beyond what seems comfortable. Sit at least a little most every...
April 09, 2018
      What is Unitarian Universalism? An interview conducted with me by a Catholic...
April 09, 2018
      My own teacher once told me that awakening is always an accident;...
April 08, 2018
  Walking the Spiritual Path: An Invitation Evelyn Underhill The following essay is the concluding...
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