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February 2010

February 23, 2010

Eating Breakfast Comes First

From time to time I like to share something from Dogen's Extensive Record (this one...

February 21, 2010

A Wild Veggie Throwing Woman and Taking Care of the Ingredients of Life Like Eyeballs

Yesterday in the webinar, I encouraged the practitioners to take care of the ingredients of...

February 20, 2010

Wholehearted Play Webinar 1

Here’s the first webinar in our current online practice period - Wholehearted Play: 90 Days...

February 17, 2010

No Fixed Form Living an Invigorated Life

Here's an excerpt from an essay by Katagiri Roshi originally published in Japanese in 1978...

February 14, 2010

The Utility of Uselessness

Yesterday the "Tricycle Daily Dharma" had a nice quote from Joko Beck, including this: ...It...

February 12, 2010

Collective Power

We're getting ready to jump back into ango (peaceful dwelling), both online and at Transforming...

February 10, 2010

Vital Work: Clarifying and Harmonizing

It is vital that we clarify and harmonize our lives with our work and not...

February 08, 2010

Choosing to Practice with the Present Set of Limits

I drove to work through our latest storm this morning, mostly crawling at about 15...

February 07, 2010

Flipping Intimacy

I'm enjoying some post-sesshin work time, preparing an outline for the upcoming online practice period...

February 05, 2010

The Study of a Flip

We'll be in sesshin this weekend, studying the flip, as Dogen says below (the...

February 02, 2010

Happiness Means Never Having to Relate with Anything

That’s the American way as Ed Brown sardonically puts it in his wonderful presentation, Dogen's...

January 2010

January 30, 2010

Practice Period Invitation: The Movie

I had some fun making this video invitation for the practice period, Wholehearted Play: 90...

January 27, 2010

Menzan and Dainin on Zazenshin

After the first talk in Anchorage last week, a practitioner approached me and said he'd...

January 26, 2010

Wholehearted Play: 90 Days of Cooking this Great Life

photo by Carl at Cold Bay in the Aleutian IslandsThis playing has no purpose, no...

January 23, 2010

Gloom, Doom and Dharma

On the plane last week, I settled in and read a couple articles that I'd...

January 22, 2010

Zen and Service Follow Up: Pink for Port

Several readers expressed themselves and seemed to connect with my quandary posted about a month...

January 20, 2010

Back from Anchorage

I’m back at it here in White Bear after a long weekend trip to Anchorage. I...

January 14, 2010

Zazen Koan

I'm off to Anchorage for the weekend in a little bit and am leaving you,...

January 09, 2010

What is Great Practice?

I found the discussion following my last post about Jiryu's book, Two Shores of Zen:...

January 05, 2010

Two Shores of Zen: Are Western Sanghas All of That?

I've been reading Two Shores of Zen: An American Monk’s Japan, by Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler....

January 02, 2010

Zen and Service

Here's the recording of the webinar presentation and discussion from today. Click here (after it...

January 01, 2010

Taking a Step Off the 100-Foot Pole this New Year

May we all play full out in our practice and throughout our lives in 2010....

December 2009

December 29, 2009

Balance in Zazen

I stayed up last night reading some excerpts from a priest from San Francisco Zen...

December 27, 2009

Thinking into Not Thinking

This morning's sunrise above. The colors created by sun, snow, eyes and mind were quite...

December 22, 2009

Rolling Up My Sleeves

This week I'm off from my day job and delighted to be working on some...

December 19, 2009

100 Days Finale’ and Upcoming Offerings

Here's the last session of the Genjokoan 100 Days. Click here (and when Webex gets...

December 17, 2009

Nothing to Attain?

This from an email from one of the 100-day practitioners:"There is no goal ... but...

December 14, 2009

On Minding Your Own Business … or Not

Sometimes students here are kinda picky. For example, they want consistency! In this last sesshin,...

December 10, 2009

On Service

I'm reflecting tonight on service following a conversation with a young man at work today...

December 09, 2009

Snowy Day, Dog to Dog

That's really all I've got to say today. The photo was taken with G's cell...

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