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February 2010

February 23, 2010
From time to time I like to share something from Dogen's Extensive Record (this one...
February 21, 2010
Yesterday in the webinar, I encouraged the practitioners to take care of the ingredients of...
February 20, 2010
Here’s the first webinar in our current online practice period - Wholehearted Play: 90 Days...
February 17, 2010
Here's an excerpt from an essay by Katagiri Roshi originally published in Japanese in 1978...
February 14, 2010
Yesterday the "Tricycle Daily Dharma" had a nice quote from Joko Beck, including this: ...It...
February 12, 2010
We're getting ready to jump back into ango (peaceful dwelling), both online and at Transforming...
February 10, 2010
It is vital that we clarify and harmonize our lives with our work and not...
February 08, 2010
I drove to work through our latest storm this morning, mostly crawling at about 15...
February 07, 2010
I'm enjoying some post-sesshin work time, preparing an outline for the upcoming online practice period...
February 05, 2010
  We'll be in sesshin this weekend, studying the flip, as Dogen says below (the...
February 02, 2010
That’s the American way as Ed Brown sardonically puts it in his wonderful presentation, Dogen's...

January 2010

January 30, 2010
I had some fun making this video invitation for the practice period, Wholehearted Play: 90...
January 27, 2010
After the first talk in Anchorage last week, a practitioner approached me and said he'd...
January 26, 2010
photo by Carl at Cold Bay in the Aleutian IslandsThis playing has no purpose, no...
January 23, 2010
On the plane last week, I settled in and read a couple articles that I'd...
January 22, 2010
 Several readers expressed themselves and seemed to connect with my quandary posted about a month...
January 20, 2010
I’m back at it here in White Bear after a long weekend trip to Anchorage. I...
January 14, 2010
I'm off to Anchorage for the weekend in a little bit and am leaving you,...
January 09, 2010
 I found the discussion following my last post about Jiryu's book, Two Shores of Zen:...
January 05, 2010
I've been reading Two Shores of Zen: An American Monk’s Japan, by Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler....
January 02, 2010
  Here's the recording of the webinar presentation and discussion from today. Click here (after it...
January 01, 2010
May we all play full out in our practice and throughout our lives in 2010....

December 2009

December 29, 2009
 I stayed up last night reading some excerpts from a priest from San Francisco Zen...
December 27, 2009
This morning's sunrise above. The colors created by sun, snow, eyes and mind were quite...
December 22, 2009
 This week I'm off from my day job and delighted to be working on some...
December 19, 2009
Here's the last session of the Genjokoan 100 Days. Click here (and when Webex gets...
December 17, 2009
This from an email from one of the 100-day practitioners:"There is no goal ... but...
December 14, 2009
Sometimes students here are kinda picky. For example, they want consistency! In this last sesshin,...
December 10, 2009
I'm reflecting tonight on service following a conversation with a young man at work today...
December 09, 2009
That's really all I've got to say today. The photo was taken with G's cell...
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