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October 2018
October 02, 2018
WE finished a three-day weekend sesshin at the Nebraska...
September 2018
August 2018
August 10, 2018
Once in awhile, I hear some trash talk about me and my practice and teaching...
July 2018
July 07, 2018
James Myōun Ford Rōshi recently asked, "What would you say are the essential Dōgen texts?"...
June 2018
June 18, 2018
In these later days of the buddhadharma, when most of what passes off as "buddhadharma"...
June 16, 2018
This month at the Nebraska Zen Center, we're working the theme of being on the...
May 2018
May 12, 2018
Why don't you build a jointed bridge with your free mind for the people passing...
May 03, 2018
In my last post, I shared a bit of the criticism that Hakuin (1686 – 1768)...
April 2018
April 14, 2018
Hakuin (1686 - 1768), the great revitalizer of Rinzai Zen, had blistering criticisms of practitioners...
April 03, 2018
A few days ago, the prolific James Myoun Ford Rōshi (fyi, "Rōshi,"老師, or "old dog"...
March 2018
March 30, 2018
Currently, there is much talk in the Zen blog world about how old one needs...
March 12, 2018
In a letter written by Hakuin in 1734 (Complete Plum Blossoms in a Thicket of...
March 05, 2018
One of the hallmarks of Hakuin's vivid style of Zen was his emphasis on the...
February 2018
February 23, 2018
This post continues the series on the teaching of the great Rinzai teacher Hakuin Ekaku (白隠 慧鶴,...
February 12, 2018
This past week, I received an email from a Sōtō Zen priest...
February 05, 2018
Studying Hakuin, the real guy keeps showing up - a...
January 2018
January 29, 2018
This post continues the series on the teaching of Hakuin, the 18th Century Japanese Rinzai...
January 22, 2018
The road passes among cresting mountains, Winding through thickets and vines; The border of the...
January 15, 2018
Kuang-hui asked Nan-yuan, "What about before the wooden fish wumps?" "Looking at the sky, not...
January 07, 2018
In my last post, Who Is This Hakuin Guy?, I gave some background for Hakuin...
December 2017
December 30, 2017
It's been cold in Omaha these past days...
December 15, 2017
"This mind is Buddha" is one of...
November 2017
November 27, 2017
I just found this old photo of Tangen...
November 20, 2017
In this look at Brad Warner's new...
November 13, 2017
I've been working on a review of Brad Warner's new...
November 08, 2017
Above is Zenshin Tim Buckley, a friend...
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