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June 2017

June 28, 2017

If You Get Silly Good at Zen, Will You Still Suffer?

Can Zen practice, even if you're really good at it, lead us to freedom from...

June 26, 2017

Illuminating with Grit and Ease: Gateless Barrier’s Mu Kōan

Wúmén Huikai (1183-1260, literally, "No-Gate Bright-Opening"), the compiler and author of the Gateless Barrier (無門關...

June 21, 2017

What Is Zazen? Dōgen’s Koan Realized

What is zazen? Everybody knows that Zen practice is largely about zazen, literally, "sitting zen"...

June 19, 2017

Communal or Private: Is Zen for Everybody or Just a Few?

Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler at No Zen in the West recently raised the issue of "Private...

June 13, 2017

Flipping Over and Decoding Chinese Characters for Zen Translations

As is well known, the Chinese written language, and especially the ancient Ch'an texts, use...

June 11, 2017

The Mu Koan and How Some Zennists Just Wanna Have Fun

I'm going to roll back into the "mu koan" here. One thing I'm not going...

June 09, 2017

The End of Zen Exceptionalism

Recently, a new-ish Zen teacher who is thinking of accepting a position at an established...

December 2016

December 18, 2016

The True Bridge? Studying and Teaching Zen

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Dharma and Relationships in Bhutan: A Brief and Very Partial Trip Review

One night earlier this month at Lhodrak Karchu Monastery in Jakar, in the Bumthang district...

October 08, 2016

Bhutan and the Hereandnow

There is more that I'd like to share here about Zen practice now, our experiment...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

April 2016

April 01, 2016

The Wave-Particle Duality and Practice-Enlightenment

At the beginning of the last century, the great theoretical physicists noticed that neither the...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Review of Brad Warner’s Latest, “Don’t Be A Jerk”

Brad Warner has done a lot of...

January 2016

January 05, 2016

Just Sit or Wake Up? A Tale of Two Old Teachers

The tension over what to emphasize in dharma practice, just sitting or waking up (aka,...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Buddha’s Enlightenment: Yielding Assertively, Touching the Heart

Note: This is the fifth of five post based on talks from Rohatsu 2014. Students...

December 15, 2015

Buddha’s Enlightenment: A Single Body is Revealed

Note: This is the fourth of five post based on talks from Rohatsu 2014. Students...

December 11, 2015

Buddha’s Enlightenment: Not Clear About the Self

Note: This is the third part of five, based talks from last year’s Rohatsu that...

December 04, 2015

Buddha’s Enlightenment: Sitting Through It All

Note: This is the second part of five, based talks from last year's Rohatsu that...

December 02, 2015

Buddha’s Enlightenment: The Root of Zen

Note: This is the first part of five - talks from last year's Rohatsu that...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

After Buddhism: Embrace Life, Let Go of What Arises, See its Ceasing, Act!

When I mentioned to a friend that I was reading Stephen Batchelor's new book, After...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

Shaking Up the Buddhadharma With Online Practice

Quick question: what sparked the compassion revolution in Buddhism that we now call the Great...

August 2015

August 30, 2015

Zen: The Authentic Gate

Zen: The Authentic Gate, by Koun Yamada Roshi...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Ducking the Quacking Koan: Soto Zen, Koan, and Kensho

The friendly-looking monk in the photo is Hashimoto Eko Roshi (1890-1965). In about 1948, the young...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

The No of No No: Affirming the Great Heart Sutra

Here at Great Tides Zen (in conjunction with the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for...

May 18, 2015

A New Home for Great Tides Zen?

Dear Friend, Great Tides Zen is at an important crossroads. We...

May 09, 2015

Doug Kaishin Phillips Ordination

This past Thursday night I had the pleasure of attending the Soto Zen priest ordination...

April 2015

April 17, 2015

Zenshin Tim Buckley Dies: One Heartbeat, Ten Thousand Buddhas

Zenshin Tim Buckley, a Zen priest affiliated with the San Francisco Zen Center system and...

April 06, 2015

Restraining the Nevertheless Deluded One: Vine of Obstacles Turns Two

"Seek out and restrain someone who is 'nevertheless deluded,' and you will eventually encounter a...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

The Way of Tenderness: the Form and Emptiness of Race, Sexuality, and Gender

"Although my teachers taught us the absolute truths of Zen practice, they seemed to negate...

March 04, 2015

BTW, We Have to Remove Your Feet: Being Mortal, Waking Up, and Dying Together

I had a "minor" surgery last week and was in the hospital overnight for the...

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