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Kenshō and makyō are the flavor of the week in these parts, so this post...

Today would be the 91st birthday of my first teacher, Dainin Katagiri Rōshi (1928-1990). Happy...

At the beginning of 2018, I began a year-long focus on Hakuin's teaching, specifically, Norman...

          We humans have been looking in the mirror for a...

                The Record of Empty Hall,  Case 67:...

            WE finished a three-day weekend sesshin at the Nebraska...

                Hakuin's painting, poetry, and Zen teaching were...

Once in awhile, I hear some trash talk about me and my practice and teaching...

              Here at the Nebraska Zen Center, we're getting...

James Myōun Ford Rōshi recently asked, "What would you say are the essential Dōgen texts?"...

In these later days of the buddhadharma, when most of what passes off as "buddhadharma"...

This month at the Nebraska Zen Center, we're working the theme of being on the...

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Why don't you build a jointed bridge with your free mind for the people passing...

In my last post, I shared a bit of the criticism that Hakuin (1686 – 1768)...

Hakuin (1686 - 1768), the great revitalizer of Rinzai Zen, had blistering criticisms of practitioners...

A few days ago, the prolific James Myoun Ford Rōshi (fyi, "Rōshi,"老師, or "old dog"...

Currently, there is much talk in the Zen blog world about how old one needs...

In a letter written by Hakuin in 1734 (Complete Plum Blossoms in a Thicket of...

One of the hallmarks of Hakuin's vivid style of Zen was his emphasis on the...

This post continues the series on the teaching of the great Rinzai teacher Hakuin Ekaku (白隠 慧鶴,...

      This past week, I received an email from a Sōtō Zen priest...

          Studying Hakuin, the real guy keeps showing up - a...

This post continues the series on the teaching of Hakuin, the 18th Century Japanese Rinzai...

The road passes among cresting mountains, Winding through thickets and vines; The border of the...

Kuang-hui asked Nan-yuan, "What about before the wooden fish wumps?" "Looking at the sky, not...

In my last post, Who Is This Hakuin Guy?, I gave some background for Hakuin...

              Recently, I interviewed a prospective student for the...

              It's been cold in Omaha these past days...

                "This mind is Buddha" is one of...