Wandering Close to Home: A Year of Zen Reflections, Consolations, and Reveries "Our essential choice is whether or not we align with what is already true."
Paid-members only Sunday Student Talk Sunday Practice Session August 25: Not Uplifting the Self and Damaging Others
Paid-members only Record of Going Easy Stars Shining Through a Hidden Meaning: On Taking the Teaching Seat
What Was Bodhidharma Really Doing? On The Importance of Breaking Through Walls If we cling to walls about dharma practice, how can we break through?
Vine of Obstacles Zen Featured Four Big Juicy Factors of the Zen Way Many practitioners languish in their home practice, tormented by small doubt, due to the difficulty of implementing Zen practice in non-residential settings.
Vine of Obstacles Zen Featured Vine of Obstacles Zen Training: What's the Point? Wholeheartedly doing the training just for the love of the buddhadharma.
Not Misusing Sexuality Not Misusing Sexuality: The Naked-Woman Koan “All of the buddhas of the three worlds, the six ancestors, and all the great monks everywhere—they all come out from within this.”
Paid-members only Record of Going Easy Nanquan Beheads a Cat: Putting the Two Together with One Stroke of a Blade
Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts Cats, Cars, and Categories: The Wondrous Subtlety of the Buddhadharma One crucial point in this work is to grok the subtle truth of these three perspectives with the whole bodymind. Wallowing in moralism is dangerous. Realizing emptiness is not enough.
Householder Zen Featured Can Householders Really Do The Work of Zen? You will need to let go of living your life based on fleeting and fickle human feelings. Beyond that, it is really simple. Find teachers with a training program that challenges you to throw yourself into the house of Buddha with wild abandon.
Members only Formless atonement Featured The Interacting Communion of Appeal and Response: Kanno Doko
