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June 2008

June 19, 2008

Ahhh! Summer!

Finally my school year is done! I've got about 80 hours of work to do...

June 18, 2008

Rolling Up Our Sleeves and Going to Work

A. asks: I've been practicing Zen for four years and it has become an important...

June 16, 2008

Zazen, Experience and Life

Question: Someone said, sitting in stillness is transcendent practice…to rise above suffering…not transformative. So it’s...

June 16, 2008

The New Dog

After some months of rolling around with the issue, we decided that although this wasn't...

June 14, 2008

Just added a new feature: blog roll. Look over to the right margin and you'll...

June 13, 2008

You’ve Got To Serve Somebody

(Above a Tibetan monk debates, highlightinig his point and sending it to his debate companion...

June 11, 2008

What is Authentic Zen? Or … You Gotta Lot of Nerve

When I think about authenticity and Zen, the first thoughts are about old Dogen-zenji. Soto...

June 06, 2008

Stances in Zen Teaching

Sitting at a bar and catching up with my brother last night, it struck me...

June 05, 2008

Plumbing, Flutes, and Dead Bodies

I just discovered that there'll be enough people here on Saturday for a dharma talk....

June 02, 2008

On Spiritual Schwagging

Schwag aside, Brad Warner's poetry blows. This you can clearly see from his blog post...

June 01, 2008

Turning Sunday Morning

Rather than sleep in on this Sunday morning, I awoke early. My kids are away...

May 2008

May 30, 2008

Beyond the Ocean, Great Tides Memorial Day

Today, May 30, is the memorial day for Katagiri-roshi’s teacher and my dharma grandfather, Daicho...

May 28, 2008

Climate Change Summary Study

I just saw a summary of a major review of the research literature on climate...

May 27, 2008

Wheel on Fire: What Can Dharma Do?

We ought to be able to look the situation (in this case the possible near-term...

May 26, 2008

Mindfulness and War Debunked (in part)

Brad Warner has a crackin' short piece on "mindfulness" or the lack thereof in actual...

May 25, 2008

Sesshin Reflections on Old Buddha Heart

Today we finished sesshin (literally, "gathering the heart"), a Zen-style retreat with 13 forty-minute sittings,...

May 23, 2008

Wheel on Fire (Part I.a)

Here's somebody who might know what he's talking about saying a very similar thing to...

May 22, 2008

Wheel on Fire (Part I)

I'm reluctant to address the mild suffering of the price of gas in the face...

May 19, 2008

A Tomato Goes Upside-Down (As Seen on TV) and a Buffalo Squeezes Through a Latticed Window

You may have seen this on cable too - it's my birthday present from my...

May 18, 2008

On Getting Upside-Down

I just discovered that the young woman/old woman above is from a German postcard by...

May 18, 2008

Making Their Own Limits in Spiritual Partnership

Some of the ongoing issues in the transmission and adaptation of Buddhism to the West...

May 16, 2008

Attaining Equilibrium

Last night we finished up the series of study group sessions that began last September...

May 15, 2008

Dosho to a hostile fifteen-year old, " Your anger appears to be misplaced."Young man looking...

May 14, 2008

Arhat or Bodhisattva?

The current issue of Buddhadharma includes an excellent article by Ajahn Amaro ("how we can...

May 13, 2008

Neural Buddhists

Here's a David Brooks' column from the NY Times on cultural trends given the ongoing...

May 12, 2008

A Question about Working with Trauma

Question: Can zazen be useful in dealing with trauma? I am studying zazen and MBSR...

May 12, 2008

Burma Devastation

See for a horrifying report of the suffering caused by last weeks cyclone.

May 11, 2008

Zen That Works

Dogen, in his "Dream Within a Dream" (Muchu Setsumu") fascicle offers this image for working...

May 11, 2008

Keep Me In Your Heart for Awhile: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri

Here's the catalog description (draft, I believe) for my book that explains the title.After my...

May 11, 2008

Mother’s Day

The photo here is Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother's Day. After campaigning for a...

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