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"God disturbs us toward our destiny By hard events And by freedom’s now urgent voice...

Marc Lesser, a business consultant, former CEO of Brush Dance, and Zen teacher in the...

What do dreams mean? Especially those dreams that haunt, that can't be shaken off with...

Sometimes I get called "Reverend" and it just doesn't sit right. You see, I don't...

One of the central metaphors in the buddhadharma likens our usual world to a dream...

If you happen to be reading this and live in the White Bear area, you...

Jiryu Mark has a nice new post, American Buddhist Apocrypha, over at the No Zen...

"Life is a process of growing and changing, and what our results suggest is that...

I imagine that like you, dear reader, today I'm reflecting on 2012 and wondering about...

Last night I dreamed that I was in a brightly lit dokusan room. Unlike usual...

I'm back from sesshin at Boundless Way (click here for a shot of the sesshin...

I've promised myself and you, dear reader, that I'd address this question: What is a...

As I plotted this blog, I noticed thinking that I "should" be writing about the...

The fine Buddhist scholar Dale Wright (see Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism, for example) gave a fine...

"Take a straight dose" is one of the slogans in Michael Carroll's  Fearless at Work:...

During a sesshin dokusan in 1981, after practicing with Katagiri Roshi for three or four...

I was pleased this morning as I reviewed the comments to my recent posts about...

A couple weeks ago I posted "Zen is Going to Hell and It’s the Boomers’...

I had planned to write about Journeys on the Silk Road this morning, but I...

Well, that's one voice - my crabby-old-man-yelling-at-the-neighborhood-kids-to-stay-off-his-lawn voice. Before I really get into this voice,...

A monk said, "I've just arrived here and I beg the master to point out...

There's a new Katagiri Roshi archive up here: click Andrea Martin has done a great...

"Living's mostly wasting time/and I waste my share of mine" - Cowboy Junkies When...

            Thirty years on the river bank, Angling for the...

This reflection is a follow up to James Ford's post a little while back, Jiufeng...

"Sparklingly refeshing," says one of the blurbs on the back cover. And also, "Ford's mature,...

I'd been practicing Zen for a half-dozen years when my mother asked for a book...

That's a Hafiz poem about huge love on the wall of a convenience store in...

Just back from sesshin with Bodhin Kjolhede and crew at the Rochester Zen Center's beautiful...

Note: Here's the conclusion of my koan confessions, starting with a real confession - I'm...