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When I was training at Bukkokuji Zen Monastery in Obama, Japan, on the twelfth day...

              Why nineteen ways to translate one poem? As...

You can't do what alone? Traditionally in the buddhadharma across schools, samādhi (calming, concentration or...

This year at both the Nebraska Zen Center and the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support...

Ronald E. Purser has written a very important book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist...

Is Zen weak on compassion teachings? Zen teacher Norman Fischer Rōshi has written that he...

Was Hakuin Ekaku (1686 – 1768), the great Japanese revitalizer of Rinzai Zen and the...

My wife and co-teacher, Tetsugan, and I have been noticing how participation at the Nebraska...

Overview This program offers Zen practice under the guidance a senior Zen teacher, Dōshō Port...

            I forgot a few important things when writing the...

        Recently, here at the Nebraska Zen Center, we held a three-day...

"Zen could be said to be the biggest joke that has ever been played in...

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...

Raised: Zǐhú asked Iron Grindstone Liú, “For a long time, I’ve been favorably inclined to...

            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...