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November 2022

November 08, 2022

A Stone Bridge? The Teacher-Student Relationship in Zen

A monk asked Zhaozhou, "For a long time I’ve heard about Zhaozhou's stone bridge. Coming...

November 05, 2022

November 02, 2022

The “Soto Zen” of the PMSO: A New Religion Whose Time Has Passed

If you are a regular reader, you know that I use the phrase "Post Meiji...

October 2022

October 19, 2022

One Geeky Review of Dahui’s “Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching”

Dahui Zonggao (1089–1163) was (arguably) the most important Zen master ever. (1) He is credited...

October 04, 2022

Soto Zen’s Dirty Little Secret

Dirty Little Secret? According to the Urban Dictionary, that esteemed and profound arbiter of taste...

September 2022

September 19, 2022

Soto and Rinai Zen: One School or Two?

Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions My next book is cooking along and at...

September 13, 2022

Is There Someone Who Gets It?

In our recently concluded summer study session through the Vine of Obstacles Zen, we explored...

September 12, 2022

Invitation to “Awakening of Mahayana Faith” October 2 – November 20, 2022

This fall, we are introducing a new offering through the Vine of Obstacles Zen -...

September 01, 2022

Outer and Inner Layer Utterly Dropped Off: The Awakening Meihō Sotetsu Zenji

Introduction Meihō Sotetsu (1277-1350, 明峰素哲, Bright Peak Elemental Penetration) is the fifth generation Sōtō Zen...

August 2022

August 16, 2022

Whole-Body Little Dog: New Translations of Two Old Dōgen Poems

In recent days, I've been playing around with translating some bits of Dōgen from his...

August 02, 2022

You Might Need More Than One Dog: The Problems with Kōan Work Today

This post might...

July 2022

July 27, 2022

Stinking Skin Bags, Blind Donkeys, Parrots and Studying the Buddhadharma

Click here to support my Zen teaching practice via Patreon. Introduction This post is the...

July 13, 2022

Four Little Fishies in the Big Zen Sea and How They Do Study

Overview This post is the second in a series of three on study practice in...

June 2022

June 09, 2022

The Vital Importance of Studying Buddhadharma: Why and How

Introduction In this post, I will explore two questions: "Why study the buddhadharma" and "How...

June 02, 2022

Dark Night, Broken Bridge: What To Do When What’s Worked Doesn’t

Many of us come to a place in our journey where what once worked is...

May 2022

May 23, 2022

Disclosing the Hidden Teaching of the Ten Line Kannon Sutra

Click here to support the my teaching practice via Patreon. This is a recording...

May 09, 2022

The Many Beings Are Numberless: A Brief Reflection on Translation

Click here to support the my teaching practice via Patreon. Your contribution will enhance my...

April 2022

April 18, 2022

Seven Stumbles, Eight Blunders: The Life of Tetsu Gikai

Click here to support the teaching practice of Dōshō Rōshi. What you'll find in this...

April 07, 2022

Praise for the Old Buddha Rújìng and His Dying Poem

Click here to support the teaching practice of Dōshō Rōshi at Patreon. One helluva teacher...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

Another Big Ugly Myth: Zen Lacks A Compassion Practice

Some say this is due to a deficiency in the Zen tradition, but in my...

March 17, 2022

Punning, Toileting, and Purifying: the Awakening of Rújìng

Exploding myths An earlier version of this post has been up awhile at my Patreon...

March 07, 2022

Meeting People and Manifesting (or not): Two Slippery, Seamless Kōans for Advancing Practice

Deep, Dark, Nurturing Waters This post is about practicing after kenshō, and even after having...

February 2022

February 23, 2022

How to Break Through Mu

The theme here is the Cáodòng/Sōtō master Tiāntóng Rújìng's (1163-1229, 天童如淨; Japanese, Tendō Nyojō) instructions...

February 14, 2022

Suzuki Rōshi on Kenshō, Householder Practice, and Rinzai Zen

What this post is about Recently, a friend shared a passage from the Shunryū Suzuki...

February 03, 2022

Rujing and Six Intimate Dharma Heirs

In this post, Kōkyō Henkel offers an insightful preface and then his and Yashu Zhang's...

January 2022

January 31, 2022

The New Dosho Port Patreon Page

What's going on here? I've started a Dosho Port Patreon page and you are very...

January 12, 2022

Keizan’s “Answers to Ten Questions from the Emperor”

In this post I’ll offer some dharma gems from Keizan Jōkin Zenji (1268–1325), the fourth...

January 09, 2022

The Luminous Koun Ejō Zenji: Background, Awakening, Legacy

A preliminary note After focusing for the last five years on other translating and writing...

December 2021

December 12, 2021

The Death of Harada Daiun Sogaku Roshi: 60th Year Memorial

Dosho’s Note: Below you’ll find a translation of an article that first appeared in a...

November 2021

November 26, 2021

The End of Zen in Japan?

By guest blogger, Bukkokuji monk, Kogen Czarnik Living in the 21st century, it is hard...

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