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August 2013

August 10, 2013
Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training is a new way of studying Dogen...
August 06, 2013
"What is the minimum amount of asceticism required?" That's the question a fine young practitioner...

July 2013

July 28, 2013
Pamela D.  Winfield has undertaken a wonderfully detailed and intelligent study, Icons and Iconoclasm in...
July 24, 2013
One of the many sweet things about teaching through the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support...
July 20, 2013
My friend and teacher, James Ford, has a recent Monkey Mind post (click here), "Assuming...
July 09, 2013
"Lose your body beneath the patched robe" is a line from a Stonehouse poem (p....

June 2013

June 30, 2013
For the upcoming workshop on the spirit, principles and practices of Zen priest home leavers...
June 27, 2013
Here's the first buzz of my square head, administered by my dad with big sister...
June 24, 2013
Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede (front and center) recently sent this photo (me, back and right) from...
June 05, 2013
The essential instruction for zazen practice in the Zen tradition from Shitou's (700-790) "Song of...
June 01, 2013
Oh why, oh why won't the idol deliver? That phrase is from an astute Viner...

May 2013

May 30, 2013
This morning after zazen, we offered incense and the recitation of the Heart Sutra to...
May 24, 2013
Blue depths ten thousand ages old, the moon in an empty realm; You’ll only know...
May 21, 2013
            In Vine of Obstacles practice meetings, a passage from The...
May 11, 2013
In the Vine of Obstacles: Support for Online Zen Training, the first focus for study...
May 08, 2013
What good is Zen? What can we expect from our practice? Is Zen about transformation?...

April 2013

April 29, 2013
Online Zen training? What would the old guys say about that? I don't know. The...
April 25, 2013
I've been enjoying the run-up to the full moon. Both of the last two nights,...
April 19, 2013
Most Zen practitioners today do what I call "home-based practice" rather than monastic or center-based...
April 16, 2013
I'm back from sesshin in Omaha. "Pay Attention, Be Kind, Remember that the World is...
April 06, 2013
This morning I came across pictures of Bodhi trying to thread a stick horizontally through...
April 01, 2013
Yes, I've jumped into the online world, determined to offer the best Zen training possible....

March 2013

March 29, 2013
Recently a Zen student who had been working with one of the koans in the...
March 24, 2013
One of the themes that's been coming up lately for practitioners in these parts (yes,...
March 21, 2013
"Taking Refuge in Evil Buddhas?" What you say? In my last post, I discussed this...
March 17, 2013
In a recent fine talk,  Absolute Refuge, Jiryu Mark Rutschman Byler shares the practice of...
March 15, 2013
What is the Way Seeking Heart? Sometimes it is referred to as the "thought of...
March 08, 2013
   “Practice intimately, working within, like a fool, like an idiot. If you can achieve...
March 04, 2013
Sweeping Zen Audio now has a couple more talks, "Expressing a Dream in a Dream,"...
March 02, 2013
The other day I was talking with some of my Zen teacher buddies about the...
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