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November 2021

November 01, 2021
Tetsugan Sensei and I are living now in what we call the Neyaashi Zen Hermitage,...

August 2021

August 18, 2021
Introduction In the photo, you see a 1200-page text that contains articles on "The Shōwa...
August 12, 2021
This post contains a collection of information about The Record of Empty Hall. If you'd...

June 2021

June 25, 2021
Introduction When I was translating The Record of Empty Hall and working on the commentary,...
June 21, 2021
              Another baby book has birthed and is making...

April 2021

April 01, 2021
Above you'll find a talk that I gave on Sunday, March 28, 2021, for...

February 2021

February 15, 2021
Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening, by Guo Gu Laoshi (available now for...

January 2021

January 25, 2021
  I'm so pleased that The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans will...
January 18, 2021
Steven Heine's recent book (September, 2020), Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Giun's Verse Comments...
January 08, 2021
First, a Brief Update As I hope you have heard, The Record of Empty Hall:...

November 2020

November 08, 2020
Let me insert a short note about monastic practice here. In my view, monastic practice...

September 2020

September 23, 2020
During our nonresidential practice periods at the Minnesota Zen Center in the 1980's, students took...
September 16, 2020
In April, in the early pandemic days, I began posting a series here on the...

August 2020

August 19, 2020
This summer in the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training we've been focussed on the...

July 2020

July 14, 2020
Practice at Bukkokuji was like living at grandpa's house. Harada Tangen Rōshi set the rules and...
July 13, 2020
In 2009, I had the pleasure of teaching at what is now the Zen Life...

June 2020

June 23, 2020
One aspect of Dàhuì's teachings, probably best-known today among keyword students, are his instructions on what...
June 06, 2020
Introduction This series is especially directed to students working with a keyword (話頭 huàtóu, Japanese, watō) with...
June 04, 2020
In this final post of the series on the keyword method of Dàhuì, I begin with...

May 2020

May 31, 2020
Let's get right down to it Break through is a must if you want to...
May 26, 2020
                  The main point of this post...
May 22, 2020
        In 1144, Zen master Dàhuì received a letter from a fairly...
May 07, 2020
Awakening is a lot about energy. Slump and sniff in zazen and daily life and...
May 01, 2020
            How to cross the flood of sense desires, becoming,...

April 2020

April 24, 2020
“When you truly understand this fundamental principle you will not be anxious about your life...
April 17, 2020
  "The mind that is not baffled is not employed." My first real baffling encounter...
April 10, 2020
Some years ago, a Zen teacher was leading a sesshin for Catholic monastics. In the...
April 06, 2020
Now that I've completed the manuscript edits for The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred...
April 03, 2020
I recently met with a student (via Zoom, of course) who was recovering from the...

January 2020

January 27, 2020
I hope you will find this post as grist for your dharma-reflection mill. You see,...
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