Vacation 2023-09-19

What're we doing here? 2023-09-12

Taking Refuge 2023-09-09

Blue Cliff Record Case 16 Kyosho’s Man in the Weeds 2023-07-25

Blue Cliff Record Case 51-Seppo’s What is this 2023-07-18

Wayseeking mind 2023-07-11

Remarks on Faith in Mind 2023-06-27

Sensei Michele - Old Age and Death 2023-06-21

Blue Cliff Record Case 15 Yun Men’s Upside-Down Statement 2023-06-10

Blue Cliff Record Case 14 Yun Men’s Appropriate Statement 2023-05-30

Blue Cliff Record Case 36 – Changsha Goes for a Walk 2023-05-26

Blue Cliff Record Case 13 Haryo’s Snow in a Silver Bowl - 2023-05-16

Big Mind 2023-05-09

Mumonkan Case 39 A Mistake in Speaking 2023-05-14

Blue Cliff Record Case 12 Tozan’s Three Pounds of Flax 2023-04-18

Book of Serenity Case 21 – Yunyang Sweeps the Ground 2023-04-25

The Value of Doing Household Chores 2023-04-08

Mumonkan Case 37 - Joshu's oak tree in the garden 2023-04-11

Why We Meditate 2023-03-28

Encouragement Talk 04-05-2023

Blue Cliff Record Case 11 Huang Po’s Gobblers of Dregs 2023-03-25

Guest Teisho 2023-03-26

Blue Cliff Record Case 10 Mu Chou’s Thieving Phony 2023-03-21

Abiding nowhere, the heartmind comes forth 2023-03-24

Who Breathes 2023-02-28

Encouragement Talk 2023-03-07

What is Love 2023-02-14

The Constructed Self 2023-02-21

Encouragement Talk: Every day is a good day. 2023-02-07

Merton Quote – On the Breath 2023-02-11

Verses on the Faith Mind - Faith 2023-01-31

Each Branch of Coral Holds Up the Moon 2023-01-14

Cultivating Wisdom, Compassion, and Clarity - 2022-12-13

Rohatsu and End of Ango 2022-12-09

Verses on the Faith Mind Part 11 2022-11-22

Verses on the Faith Mind - Motion in Stillness 2022-11-29

Verses on the Faith Mind Part 3 2022-11-08

Verses on the Faith Mind Part 7 2022-11-15

Verses on the Faith Mind Part 1 - 2022-10-25

Verses on the Faith Mind Part 2 2022-11-01

A Couple of Words about The Precepts 2022-10-15

Busyness – Che Dolce Far Niente! (Italian for How Sweet It Is To Do Nothing!) 2022-10-18

How to Stop the Sound of a Distant Temple Bell 2022-10-11

Blue Cliff Record Case 8 Suigan's Eyebrows 2022-10-14

Questioning Busyness 2022-09-27

Encouragement Talk 2022-10-04

Zen and the Art of Playing Golf 2022-09-13

Just This 2022-09-20

Another Word about Dogen's Genjokoan 2022-06-28

Back to Basics 2022-09-07

7 Factors of Awakening – Tranquility 2022-06-21

7 Factors of Awakening – Equanimity 2022-06-21

Encouragement talk 2022-06-08

Don’t Take too Seriously What I Say 2022-06-11

A Word about Dogen’s Genjokoan 2022-05-24

Seven Factors of Awakening - Unification 2022-05-31

We Do Nothing 2022-05-14

Happy Continuation Day 2022-05-17

Encouragement Talk 2022-05-03

Blue Cliff Record Case 86 – Everybody Has Their Own Light – 2022-05-10

Encouragement Talk 2022-04-05

The Practice of True Presence 2022-04-26

Healing, Self, and Others 2022-03-26

7 Factors of Awakening Antidote to Veiling 2022-03-29

On the Three Pure Precepts 2022-03-22

Love and the Precepts 2022-03-26

Q & A about Practice 2022-03-08

Seven Factors of Awakening Part 5 Joy 2022-03-15

Blue Cliff Record Case 7 Hogen’s You Are Echo 2022-02-15

The Practice of Transmission 2022-02-23

The Book of Longing 2022-02-01

Great Vows (part 4) The Enlightened Way is Unsurpassable 2022-02-08

Right Speech 2022-01-11

In Honor of Thich Nhat Hanh – I Have Arrived 2022-01-25

Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo 2022-01-04

Dharmas are boundless, I vow to be teachable 2022-01-08

Dharma talk 2021-12-07

Buddha's Awakening is Our Awakening 2021-12-11

On The Great Vows 2021-11-23

Seven Factors of Awakening Part 4 Energy 2021-11-30

Mumonkan Case 19-Ordinary Mind is the Way 2021-11-13

Seven Factors of Awakening - Part 3 Investigation 2021-11-16

Seven Factors of Awakening Part 2 2021-10-26

Way Seeking Mind Talk 2021-11-02

Seven Factors of Awakening 2021-10-12

Practice of No Escape 2021-10-19

Encouragement Talk 2021-10-05

Samu-A Mindfulness Practice 2021-10-09

Blue Clif Record Case 4 - Tokusan Carrying His Bundle - 2021-09-21

Blue Cliff Record Case 5 Seppo’s “A Grain of Rice” 2021-09-28

Way Seeking Mind Talk 2021-09-07

Guided Koan - Stop the War Across the River -2021-09-14

Blue Cliff Record Case 3 – Master Ma Is Unwell - 2021-08-17

Book of Serenity Case 49 – Dongshan Holds a Memorial 2021-08-31

Hakuin and his Song of Zazen 2021-07-27

What Does Practice Achieve 2021-08-10

The Circle of the Way in Continuous Practice Part 3 - 2021-06-30

A Few Words About the Precepts 2021-07-13

Why We Practice - Joshu's Stone Bridge 2021-06-15

Case 2 Mumonkan Hyakujo and the Fox 2021-06-22

How the Breath Brings Us Back to Life 2021-06-12

Guided Meditation on Full Awareness of Breathing 2021-06-13

Case 25 Book of Serenity - Bring me the Rhinoceros 2021-05-25

Way Seeking Mind Talk 2021-06-02

Circle of the Way in Continuous Practice Part 2 - 2021-05-08

Circle of the Way in Continuous Practice Part 3 - 2021-05-18

Emptying Ourselves 2021-04-28

Ordinary Mind Is the Way 2021--05-04

Case 45 Mumonkan Who is That One 2021-04-13

The Circle of the Way in Continuous Practice Part 1 - 2021-04-20

Working with Emotions 2021-04-06

Morning Gatha 2021-04-10

Blue Cliff Record Case 2 The Ultimate Path is Without Difficulty 2021-03-16

Equanimity 2021-03-30

Zazen is Life 2021-03-14

Mumonkan Case 14 – Nansen Kills the Cat 2021-03-23

The Teaching of No Self 2021-03-09

On the Precepts 2021-03-13

Settle the self on the self and let the dharma flower bloom 2021-02-23

Blue Cliff Record Case 1 Emperor Wu Asks Bodhidharma 2021-03-02

Three Step Zen Method 2021-02-13

Water and Ice II - 2021-02-16

On Belonging 2021-01-26

One Morning 2021-02-09

Case 48 Gateless Gate Kempo's One Way 2021-01-12

Blue Cliff Record Case 11 Huang Po’s Gobblers of Dregs 2021-01-19

Three Doors to Freedom 2021-01-05

Three Doors to Freedom 2021-01-07

Accepting Ouselves as We Are 2020-12-22

No Regrets, No Resolutions 2020-12-29

On Enlightenment 2020-12-12

Case 44 Gateless Gate Basho’s Shujo 2020-12-15

Continuation of Heart Sutra 2020-12-08

Case 46 Gateless Gate Stepping Forward from the Top of a Pole 2020-12-12

Back to Basics- The Heart Sutra 2020-11-24

Great Doubt, Great Faith, Great Determination 2020-12-01

Back to Basics-Breathing 2020-11-10

Guided Meditation Belly Breathing 2020-11-14

Mumonkan Case 41 Bodhidharma Puts the Mind to Rest – 2020-10-20

Your Life Is Your Practice 2020-11-04

Desperado 2020-10-06

Blue Cliff Record Case 86 Everybody Has Their Own Light 2020-10-13

The Importance of Intention 2020-10-03

Mindfulness Practice – Just Doing 2020-10-04

Mumonkan Case 40 Kicking Over a Water Jug 2020-09-22

Everything Is Practice – 2020-09-30

Mumonkan Case 39 Unmon and a Mistake in Speech 2020-09-08

Mumonkan Case 19 What is Ordinary Mind 2020-09-15

Practical Interconnectedness 2020-8-18

Mumonkan Case 38 A Cow Passes Through a Window 2020-08-25

Mumonkan Case 36 Meeting a Man Who Has Accomplished the Way - Enmei Jukku Kanno Gyo 2020-07-26

Mumonkan Case 37 The Oak Tree in the Garden 2020-08-11

Mumonkan Case 34 Knowing is Not the Way 202-07-14

Love 2020-07-21

Mumonkan Case 32 A Non-Buddhist Questions Buddha 2020-06-30

Blue Cliff Record Case 91 Yen Kuan’s Rhinoceros 2020-07-07

On Social Justice and Not Knowing 2020-06-13 Householder Sesshin

Uncertainty in Difficult Times 2020-06-17

Mumonkan Case 30 Mind is Buddha 2020-06-02

Blue Cliff Record Case 36 Chosa Takes a Walk 2020-06-09

Case 35 Mumonkan Seijo's Soul Is Separated 2020-5-19

Mumonkan Case 27 Not Mind Not Buddha 2020-05-26

Intimacy - sequel to Everyday is a Good Day 2020-4-21

Mumankan Case 29 Not the Wind Not the Flag 2020-05-05

Mountains and Waters Sutra Parts 11 and 12 - 2020-02-18

Mountains and Waters parts 13 and 14 2020-02-25

Mountains and Waters Parts 7, 8 and 10 - 2020-02-08

Mountains and Waters Encouragement Talk 2020-02-08

About Mountains and Waters 2020-01-14

Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Guided Meditation 2020-01-28

Mumonkan Case 27 Not Mind Not Buddha - 2019-12-13

Acceptance - A Compassionate Action 2019-12-13

Blue Cliff Record Case 13 – Snow in a Silver Bowl 2019-10-29

What has been the constant throughout your life 2019-10-22

Mumonkan Case 25 Yangshan's Sermon from the Third Seat 2019-10-8

The Zendo as a Place of Refuge and Awakening 2019-10-01

About Service Positions 2019-09-10

Hakuin's World Falls Apart 2019-9-3

Honoring Our Common Humanity 2019-07-16

Mumonkan Case 23 Think Neither Good nor Evil 2019-07-30

Joshu's Oak Tree 2019-05-15

Joshu's Dog 2019-06-08

On Bowing - Reverence to Buddha Nature 2019-05-07

Mumonkan Case 22 Kashyapa’s Flagpole 2019-04-23

Unmon’s Medicine and Sickness 2019-04-16

Sitting Long and Getting Tired 2019-04-13

Gatha on Opening the Sutra 2019-04-09

Gatha of Atonement 2019-03-26

What Is Ordinary Mind 2019-02-26

Book of Serenity Case 21 Ungan Sweeps the Ground 2019-03-23

On Grief 2019-02-19

On Chanting 2019-03-12

The Great Vows Part One 2019-01-22

The Great Vows Part Two 2019-01-29