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July 2012

July 10, 2012
Note: See the previous two posts for confessions #1-3 of 8. Confession #4: Koan Zen...
July 08, 2012
Note: This is the second of a series that I call my koan confessions. It...
July 07, 2012
Note: This is the first installment in a series of seven or eight that I...
July 01, 2012
(See the lyrics for "Different Sides" below). This is the best Cohen since Ten...

June 2012

June 28, 2012
                    Last weekend I visited my...
June 26, 2012
                    Okay, not funny. But the...
June 17, 2012
About a week ago, I had a really rough day at work with three events...
June 02, 2012
A student recently reminded me of this talk, posted here a while back. With thanks...

May 2012

May 26, 2012
Way back when I was first in Japan at age 26, I went to Soto...
May 18, 2012
Back in the 1980's, the scholarly perspective that Bodhidharma was a myth began making the...
May 12, 2012
Good stuff in the blog world this morning, sorta on a theme - is the...
May 06, 2012
I'm just back from a few days along the North Shore of Lake Superior -...

April 2012

April 28, 2012
One of the emerging voices in our blooming Zen conversation is Koun Franz, a young...
April 21, 2012
As I may have mentioned, in our Monday Night Dogen Study we've been working through...
April 07, 2012
But it turns out they don't have any real conflict after all so they end...

March 2012

March 31, 2012
Did he ever! In modern terms, of course, which is really not fair to the...
March 24, 2012
"Why does Dogen make it so hard to understand what he's saying?" So asked (or...
March 19, 2012
That would be Waylon Coyote and Willie Wild Fox - although the former put a...
March 17, 2012
Just back from my ritual dog walk in the woods, savoring it all. The Robins...
March 12, 2012
Here's Bodhi after going wild in a field on a warm day, running and dancing,...
March 10, 2012
A couple days ago at work I was cleaning the coffee maker in my office...

February 2012

February 25, 2012
Before the noon meal during sesshin the Katagiri Roshi way, we rise from zazen, offer...
February 20, 2012
President's Day off and I'm getting a bit silly! Here's a new rendition of an...
February 18, 2012
          Here are a couple bald eagles about a week back...
February 12, 2012
"When perceiving one side, the other side is concealed." So says old Dogen in his...
February 03, 2012
A deep thanks to Koun for his wholehearted, uncompromising effort to express his impersonal heart...

January 2012

January 30, 2012
In a recent email exchange with Dosho, I made an offhand comment about “authentic practice.”...
January 25, 2012
It's a pleasure to introduce Koun Franz to you as a guest blogger. This is...
January 21, 2012
This question has been up again for me lately because of a couple opposing currents...
January 14, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 7pm – Sunday, March 4, 1pm, 2012, at the lovely Deep Spring...
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