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February 2013

February 23, 2013

When Life is Disrupted, What Then?

"God disturbs us toward our destiny By hard events And by freedom’s now urgent voice...

February 16, 2013

Know Yourself, Forget Yourself Review

Marc Lesser, a business consultant, former CEO of Brush Dance, and Zen teacher in the...

February 09, 2013

The Last Word On Dream Interpretation

What do dreams mean? Especially those dreams that haunt, that can't be shaken off with...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Hanging Out With Homeleavers

Sometimes I get called "Reverend" and it just doesn't sit right. You see, I don't...

January 20, 2013

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

One of the central metaphors in the buddhadharma likens our usual world to a dream...

January 18, 2013

Expressing A Dream In A Dream 100-Day Practice

If you happen to be reading this and live in the White Bear area, you...

January 13, 2013

Remembering the Old Buddha, the Buddha Who Entered Our World To Destroy It

Jiryu Mark has a nice new post, American Buddhist Apocrypha, over at the No Zen...

January 05, 2013

The End of History Illusion And Some Implications

"Life is a process of growing and changing, and what our results suggest is that...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

New Year’s Dedication: Like a Beast Plunging Toward The Thing It Loves

I imagine that like you, dear reader, today I'm reflecting on 2012 and wondering about...

December 27, 2012

Dark Dream of Nanchuan’s Cat and Turning the Light Around

Last night I dreamed that I was in a brightly lit dokusan room. Unlike usual...

December 15, 2012

Mass Killings and What To Do

I'm back from sesshin at Boundless Way (click here for a shot of the sesshin...

December 02, 2012

What Is A Zen Life And What Does It Have To Offer?

I've promised myself and you, dear reader, that I'd address this question: What is a...

November 2012

November 24, 2012

O Come Let Us Adore Me: Brief Reflections on the Latest Sex Scandal

As I plotted this blog, I noticed thinking that I "should" be writing about the...

November 18, 2012

Is Zen a Maserati or a Schwin? Reflections on Elitism and Pluralism

The fine Buddhist scholar Dale Wright (see Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism, for example) gave a fine...

November 10, 2012

Take a Straight Dose: Review of “Fearless at Work”

"Take a straight dose" is one of the slogans in Michael Carroll's Fearless at Work:...

October 2012

October 28, 2012

It’s Not So Easy: The Apprenticeship Model for Zen Training

During a sesshin dokusan in 1981, after practicing with Katagiri Roshi for three or four...

October 20, 2012

Dogen: the Patron Saint of Passive Zen?

I was pleased this morning as I reviewed the comments to my recent posts about...

October 14, 2012

Cursing Form and Emptiness: Soto Zen, the Great Empty, and Going to Hell

A couple weeks ago I posted "Zen is Going to Hell and It’s the Boomers’...

October 06, 2012

Sky Above, Great Wind – New Translation of Ryokan’ Poetry and Life Tales

I had planned to write about Journeys on the Silk Road this morning, but I...

October 01, 2012

Zen is Going to Hell and It’s the Boomers’ Fault!

Well, that's one voice - my crabby-old-man-yelling-at-the-neighborhood-kids-to-stay-off-his-lawn voice. Before I really get into this voice,...

September 2012

September 22, 2012

Relax, Enter, Add Value: A Sometimes Not-So-Easy Summary of How to Practice Zen

A monk said, "I've just arrived here and I beg the master to point out...

September 15, 2012

New Katagiri Archive: One Who Sees the Dharma Sees Me

There's a new Katagiri Roshi archive up here: click Andrea Martin has done a great...

September 08, 2012

To Live is to Fly and the Democratic National Convention

"Living's mostly wasting time/and I waste my share of mine" - Cowboy Junkies When...

September 01, 2012

Angling for the Great Function

Thirty years on the river bank, Angling for the...

August 2012

August 25, 2012

What is the Withered Tree Way?

This reflection is a follow up to James Ford's post a little while back, Jiufeng...

August 18, 2012

If You’re Lucky, Your Heart Will Break: Sparklingly Refreshing

"Sparklingly refeshing," says one of the blurbs on the back cover. And also, "Ford's mature,...

August 04, 2012

Create Enlightened Society or Head for the Hills?

I'd been practicing Zen for a half-dozen years when my mother asked for a book...

July 2012

July 29, 2012

Soto Zen is Really Small but Love Isn’t

That's a Hafiz poem about huge love on the wall of a convenience store in...

July 22, 2012

Rochester Zen Sesshin at Chapin Mill: What Zen Would Be Like if Zen Was Established in the West

Just back from sesshin with Bodhin Kjolhede and crew at the Rochester Zen Center's beautiful...

July 12, 2012

Koan Confessions 5-8: A Half-Baked Potato

Note: Here's the conclusion of my koan confessions, starting with a real confession - I'm...