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June 2017

June 28, 2017
Can Zen practice, even if you're really good at it, lead us to freedom from...
June 26, 2017
Wúmén Huikai (1183-1260, literally, "No-Gate Bright-Opening"), the compiler and author of the Gateless Barrier (無門關...
June 21, 2017
What is zazen? Everybody knows that Zen practice is largely about zazen, literally, "sitting zen"...
June 19, 2017
Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler at No Zen in the West recently raised the issue of "Private...
June 13, 2017
As is well known, the Chinese written language, and especially the ancient Ch'an texts, use...
June 11, 2017
I'm going to roll back into the "mu koan" here. One thing I'm not going...
June 09, 2017
Recently, a new-ish Zen teacher who is thinking of accepting a position at an established...

December 2016

December 18, 2016
                   

October 2016

October 28, 2016
One night earlier this month at Lhodrak Karchu Monastery in Jakar, in the Bumthang district...
October 08, 2016
There is more that I'd like to share here about Zen practice now, our experiment...

June 2016

June 20, 2016
     

April 2016

April 01, 2016
At the beginning of the last century, the great theoretical physicists noticed that neither the...

February 2016

February 29, 2016
                Brad Warner has done a lot of...

January 2016

January 05, 2016
The tension over what to emphasize in dharma practice, just sitting or waking up (aka,...

December 2015

December 17, 2015
Note: This is the fifth of five post based on talks from Rohatsu 2014. Students...
December 15, 2015
Note: This is the fourth of five post based on talks from Rohatsu 2014. Students...
December 11, 2015
Note: This is the third part of five, based talks from last year’s Rohatsu that...
December 04, 2015
Note: This is the second part of five, based talks from last year's Rohatsu that...
December 02, 2015
Note: This is the first part of five - talks from last year's Rohatsu that...

November 2015

November 30, 2015
When I mentioned to a friend that I was reading Stephen Batchelor's new book, After...

October 2015

October 29, 2015
Quick question: what sparked the compassion revolution in Buddhism that we now call the Great...

August 2015

August 30, 2015
              Zen: The Authentic Gate, by Koun Yamada Roshi...

June 2015

June 26, 2015
The friendly-looking monk in the photo is Hashimoto Eko Roshi (1890-1965). In about 1948, the young...

May 2015

May 26, 2015
Here at Great Tides Zen (in conjunction with the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for...
May 18, 2015
        Dear Friend, Great Tides Zen is at an important crossroads. We...
May 09, 2015
This past Thursday night I had the pleasure of attending the Soto Zen priest ordination...

April 2015

April 17, 2015
Zenshin Tim Buckley, a Zen priest affiliated with the San Francisco Zen Center system and...
April 06, 2015
"Seek out and restrain someone who is 'nevertheless deluded,' and you will eventually encounter a...

March 2015

March 20, 2015
"Although my teachers taught us the absolute truths of Zen practice, they seemed to negate...
March 04, 2015
I had a "minor" surgery last week and was in the hospital overnight for the...
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