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January 2020

January 02, 2020
When I was training at Bukkokuji Zen Monastery in Obama, Japan, on the twelfth day...

December 2019

December 06, 2019
              Why nineteen ways to translate one poem? As...

November 2019

November 29, 2019
You can't do what alone? Traditionally in the buddhadharma across schools, samādhi (calming, concentration or...

August 2019

August 23, 2019
This year at both the Nebraska Zen Center and the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support...

June 2019

June 17, 2019
Ronald E. Purser has written a very important book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist...

May 2019

May 30, 2019
Is Zen weak on compassion teachings? Zen teacher Norman Fischer Rōshi has written that he...
May 20, 2019
Was Hakuin Ekaku (1686 – 1768), the great Japanese revitalizer of Rinzai Zen and the...
May 14, 2019
My wife and co-teacher, Tetsugan, and I have been noticing how participation falls into five...

April 2019

April 22, 2019
Overview This program offers Zen practice under the guidance a senior Zen teacher, Dōshō Port...
April 11, 2019
            I forgot a few important things when writing the...
April 09, 2019
        Recently, we held a three-day retreat focussed on Dōgen's “The Dharma...

February 2019

February 24, 2019
"Zen could be said to be the biggest joke that has ever been played in...
February 16, 2019
Kenshō and makyō are the flavor of the week in these parts, so this post...

January 2019

January 19, 2019
Today would be the 91st birthday of my first teacher, Dainin Katagiri Rōshi (1928-1990). Happy...

December 2018

December 29, 2018
At the beginning of 2018, I began a year-long focus on Hakuin's teaching, specifically, Norman...

November 2018

November 26, 2018
          We humans have been looking in the mirror for a...

October 2018

October 16, 2018
Raised: Zǐhú asked Iron Grindstone Liú, “For a long time, I’ve been favorably inclined to...
October 02, 2018
            WE finished a three-day weekend sesshin on Sunday. The...

September 2018

September 10, 2018
                Hakuin's painting, poetry, and Zen teaching were...

August 2018

August 10, 2018
Once in awhile, I hear some trash talk about me and my practice and teaching...

July 2018

July 19, 2018
              We're getting ready for the summer sesshin (a...
July 07, 2018
James Myōun Ford Rōshi recently asked, "What would you say are the essential Dōgen texts?"...

June 2018

June 18, 2018
In these later days of the buddhadharma, when most of what passes off as "buddhadharma"...
June 16, 2018
This month we're working the theme of being on the outside. Bob Dylan expressed it...
June 08, 2018
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May 2018

May 12, 2018
Why don't you build a jointed bridge with your free mind for the people passing...
May 03, 2018
In my last post, I shared a bit of the criticism that Hakuin (1686 – 1768)...

April 2018

April 14, 2018
Hakuin (1686 - 1768), the great revitalizer of Rinzai Zen, had blistering criticisms of practitioners...
April 03, 2018
A few days ago, the prolific James Myoun Ford Rōshi (fyi, "Rōshi,"老師, or "old dog"...

March 2018

March 30, 2018
Currently, there is much talk in the Zen blog world about how old one needs...
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