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June 2008

June 19, 2008
Finally my school year is done! I've got about 80 hours of work to do...
June 18, 2008
A. asks: I've been practicing Zen for four years and it has become an important...
June 16, 2008
Question: Someone said, sitting in stillness is transcendent practice…to rise above suffering…not transformative. So it’s...
June 16, 2008
After some months of rolling around with the issue, we decided that although this wasn't...
June 14, 2008
Just added a new feature: blog roll. Look over to the right margin and you'll...
June 13, 2008
(Above a Tibetan monk debates, highlightinig his point and sending it to his debate companion...
June 11, 2008
When I think about authenticity and Zen, the first thoughts are about old Dogen-zenji. Soto...
June 06, 2008
Sitting at a bar and catching up with my brother last night, it struck me...
June 05, 2008
I just discovered that there'll be enough people here on Saturday for a dharma talk....
June 02, 2008
Schwag aside, Brad Warner's poetry blows. This you can clearly see from his blog post...
June 01, 2008
Rather than sleep in on this Sunday morning, I awoke early. My kids are away...

May 2008

May 30, 2008
Today, May 30, is the memorial day for Katagiri-roshi’s teacher and my dharma grandfather, Daicho...
May 28, 2008
I just saw a summary of a major review of the research literature on climate...
May 27, 2008
We ought to be able to look the situation (in this case the possible near-term...
May 26, 2008
Brad Warner has a crackin' short piece on "mindfulness" or the lack thereof in actual...
May 25, 2008
Today we finished sesshin (literally, "gathering the heart"), a Zen-style retreat with 13 forty-minute sittings,...
May 23, 2008
Here's somebody who might know what he's talking about saying a very similar thing to...
May 22, 2008
I'm reluctant to address the mild suffering of the price of gas in the face...
May 19, 2008
You may have seen this on cable too - it's my birthday present from my...
May 18, 2008
I just discovered that the young woman/old woman above is from a German postcard by...
May 18, 2008
Some of the ongoing issues in the transmission and adaptation of Buddhism to the West...
May 16, 2008
Last night we finished up the series of study group sessions that began last September...
May 15, 2008
Dosho to a hostile fifteen-year old, " Your anger appears to be misplaced."Young man looking...
May 14, 2008
The current issue of Buddhadharma includes an excellent article by Ajahn Amaro ("how we can...
May 13, 2008
Here's a David Brooks' column from the NY Times on cultural trends given the ongoing...
May 12, 2008
Question: Can zazen be useful in dealing with trauma? I am studying zazen and MBSR...
May 12, 2008
See for a horrifying report of the suffering caused by last weeks cyclone.
May 11, 2008
Dogen, in his "Dream Within a Dream" (Muchu Setsumu") fascicle offers this image for working...
May 11, 2008
Here's the catalog description (draft, I believe) for my book that explains the title.After my...
May 11, 2008
The photo here is Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother's Day. After campaigning for a...
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