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August 16, 2022
Whole-Body Little Dog: New Translations of Two Old Dōgen Poems
In recent days, I've been playing around with translating some bits of Dōgen from his...
August 02, 2022
You Might Need More Than One Dog: The Problems with Kōan Work Today
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July 2022
July 27, 2022
Stinking Skin Bags, Blind Donkeys, Parrots and Studying the Buddhadharma
Click here to support my Zen teaching practice via Patreon. Introduction This post is the...
July 13, 2022
Four Little Fishies in the Big Zen Sea and How They Do Study
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June 2022
June 09, 2022
The Vital Importance of Studying Buddhadharma: Why and How
Click here to support my teaching practice via Patreon. Introduction In this post, I will...
June 02, 2022
Dark Night, Broken Bridge: What To Do When What’s Worked Doesn’t
Many of us come to a place in our journey where what once worked is...
May 2022
May 23, 2022
Disclosing the Hidden Teaching of the Ten Line Kannon Sutra
Click here to support the my teaching practice via Patreon. This is a recording...
May 09, 2022
The Many Beings Are Numberless: A Brief Reflection on Translation
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April 2022
April 18, 2022
Seven Stumbles, Eight Blunders: The Life of Tetsu Gikai
Click here to support the teaching practice of Dōshō Rōshi. What you'll find in this...
April 07, 2022
Praise for the Old Buddha Rújìng and His Dying Poem
Click here to support the teaching practice of Dōshō Rōshi at Patreon. One helluva teacher...
March 2022
March 29, 2022
Another Big Ugly Myth: Zen Lacks A Compassion Practice
Some say this is due to a deficiency in the Zen tradition, but in my...
March 17, 2022
Punning, Toileting, and Purifying: the Awakening of Rújìng
Exploding myths An earlier version of this post has been up awhile at my Patreon...
March 07, 2022
Meeting People and Manifesting (or not): Two Slippery, Seamless Kōans for Advancing Practice
Deep, Dark, Nurturing Waters This post is about practicing after kenshō, and even after having...
February 2022
February 23, 2022
How to Break Through Mu
The theme here is the Cáodòng/Sōtō master Tiāntóng Rújìng's (1163-1229, 天童如淨; Japanese, Tendō Nyojō) instructions...
February 14, 2022
Suzuki Rōshi on Kenshō, Householder Practice, and Rinzai Zen
What this post is about Recently, a friend shared a passage from the Shunryū Suzuki...
February 03, 2022
Rujing and Six Intimate Dharma Heirs
In this post, Kōkyō Henkel offers an insightful preface and then his and Yashu Zhang's...
January 2022
January 31, 2022
The New Dosho Port Patreon Page
What's going on here? I've started a Dosho Port Patreon page and you are very...
January 12, 2022
Keizan’s “Answers to Ten Questions from the Emperor”
In this post I’ll offer some dharma gems from Keizan Jōkin Zenji (1268–1325), the fourth...
January 09, 2022
The Luminous Koun Ejō Zenji: Background, Awakening, Legacy
A preliminary note After focusing for the last five years on other translating and writing...
December 2021
December 12, 2021
The Death of Harada Daiun Sogaku Roshi: 60th Year Memorial
Dosho’s Note: Below you’ll find a translation of an article that first appeared in a...
November 2021
November 26, 2021
The End of Zen in Japan?
By guest blogger, Bukkokuji monk, Kogen Czarnik Living in the 21st century, it is hard...
November 01, 2021
An Ancient Soto Master’s Praise for the Record of Linji
Tetsugan Sensei and I are living now in what we call the Neyaashi Zen Hermitage,...
August 2021
August 18, 2021
The Shōwa Dispute About True Faith
Introduction In the photo, you see a 1200-page text that contains articles on "The Shōwa...
August 12, 2021
The Record of Empty Hall: Reviews, Talks, Interview
This post contains a collection of information about The Record of Empty Hall. If you'd...
June 2021
June 25, 2021
Xutang’s Blurb for Dogen’s Best Seller
Introduction When I was translating The Record of Empty Hall and working on the commentary,...
June 21, 2021
Zen Conversations: 42 Zen Teachers talk … a short excerpt
Another baby book has birthed and is making...
April 2021
April 01, 2021
Cyber Zen: Practicing Awakening in These Very Times
Above you'll find a talk that I gave on Sunday, March 28, 2021, for...
February 2021
February 15, 2021
Silent Illumination: A Vital New Expression of An Ancient Tradition
Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening, by Guo Gu Laoshi (available now for...
January 2021
January 25, 2021
The Record of Empty Hall: a Selection, a Book Launch Reading, and More
I'm so pleased that The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans will...
January 18, 2021
Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Incredible!
Steven Heine's recent book (September, 2020), Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Giun's Verse Comments...
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