Members only Hokyo-ki Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: The Interacting Communion of Appeal and Response And then there's the burning house of the whole human and nonhuman world. What can a practitioner do but to join palms and cry out, praying for the help of the Buddhas and Ancestors?
Members only Hokyo-ki Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: What Was Dogen Thinking? In which Dogen denies that karmic hindrances are empty.
Hokyo-ki Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: Obstructions or Picking and Choosing? "Taking a shower won’t fix your heart problems."
Members only Dogen Featured Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: What Was Dogen Doing? "Liberated, they are mild and peaceful. Yet, the thunder roars.”
Hokyo-ki Dogen's Private Notes from the Hokyo Era: The Five and Six Hindrances Rujing's kufu is what works in any dharma method to be free of any hindrance.
Stages in practice Mountains are Not Given our predilection to dig into the original sources to see what unexamined and/or forgotten treasures lie there, you might not be surprised that we did it again. You'll find the results below.
Vine of Obstacles Zen Featured 15 Reasons to Become a Vine of Obstacles Zen Student If you are inclined to be put through the paces of a highly structured program designed for householders, you might find that Vine of Obstacles Zen is just the right place to find "no quarter for escape."
Paid-members only Sixth Ancestor Towering, Towering: The Death Gatha of the Sixth Ancestor and fixed sitting.
Dogen "How Much Zazen Should I Do?" No offense intended, but from what we've seen, probably a lot more than you are now doing.
Post-kensho training Falling Through No-Wall and Waking Up: Muso Soseki and Nurturing the Sacred Womb "No mind smashes the bones of the empty sky."
The Platform Sutra The Key Barrier to Practicing Awakening We must meet the barrier with that same direct, simple, subtlety.
The Platform Sutra Featured Peace Isn't Luck: Then What is The Way? "You say that there is no gradual progress, and yet Shakyamuni Buddha predicted my unsurpassed, perfect awakening. How can I get there?"
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.
Formless atonement Featured The Interacting Communion of Appeal and Response: Kanno Doko "...The perfect openness of our hearts that allows us to hear the voice of the universe beyond the irritation of our consciousness."
