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In recent days, I've been playing around with translating some bits of Dōgen from his...

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Many of us come to a place in our journey where what once worked is...

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Some say this is due to a deficiency in the Zen tradition, but in my...

Exploding myths An earlier version of this post has been up awhile at my Patreon...

Deep, Dark, Nurturing Waters This post is about practicing after kenshō, and even after having...

The theme here is the Cáodòng/Sōtō master Tiāntóng Rújìng's (1163-1229, 天童如淨; Japanese, Tendō Nyojō) instructions...

What this post is about Recently, a friend shared a passage from the Shunryū Suzuki...

In this post, Kōkyō Henkel offers an insightful preface and then his and Yashu Zhang's...

What's going on here? I've started a Dosho Port Patreon page and you are very...

In this post I’ll offer some dharma gems from Keizan Jōkin Zenji (1268–1325), the fourth...

A preliminary note After focusing for the last five years on other translating and writing...

Dosho’s Note: Below you’ll find a translation of an article that first appeared in a...

By guest blogger, Bukkokuji monk, Kogen Czarnik Living in the 21st century, it is hard...

Tetsugan Sensei and I are living now in what we call the Neyaashi Zen Hermitage,...

Introduction In the photo, you see a 1200-page text that contains articles on "The Shōwa...

This post contains a collection of information about The Record of Empty Hall. If you'd...

Introduction When I was translating The Record of Empty Hall and working on the commentary,...

              Another baby book has birthed and is making...

Above you'll find a talk that I gave on Sunday, March 28, 2021, for...

Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening, by Guo Gu Laoshi (available now for...

  I'm so pleased that The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans will...

Steven Heine's recent book (September, 2020), Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Giun's Verse Comments...