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August 2010

August 11, 2010

Aitken Roshi and Gassho

In 1987 (or there abouts), Katagiri Roshi sent me to Ann Arbor to the...

August 09, 2010

Aitken Roshi’s Death and My Taking Up Koan Introspection

We're back from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Another fantastic father-son trip and I'm now...

August 03, 2010

Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization

My son and I are preparing for our last trip of the summer - our...

July 2010

July 31, 2010

Back from Boundless Way: Feeling Good

I'm back from a sweet seven-day sesshin with Boundless Way Zen at their beautiful Mugendoji...

July 21, 2010

What’s New With Me Me Me

What a coincidence! I love that (Thanks, Ed!). Here's a brief post (all about me...

July 13, 2010

I Feel a Change Coming On … But More on That Later

I'm back from a trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, my first in that...

July 07, 2010

Dying With Heat and Cold

Here's the talk I gave June 27th in Omaha. It starts with an expanded version...

July 04, 2010

Menzan and Modern Zen

I'm enjoying our biggest stretch of vacation time at home before camping and conferencing and...

July 01, 2010

Courage and Compassion: Review of “The Banyan Deer”

It takes courage and compassion to work the edge of this practice, this life. The...

June 2010

June 24, 2010

Back from Bear Country

Above is a Canadian black bear of the smallish variety in Sleeping Giant Provincial Park....

June 17, 2010

Zen Masters: One is Working and One is Sleeping

Zen Masters, edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, arrived at my door a...

June 16, 2010

Invitation to the Blues

Above you'll find Tom Waits from 1977. No accounting for taste, as they say, but...

June 11, 2010

Going into the Dark, Employing Nonthinking

We begin sesshin tonight and will sit through Tuesday evening. Sesshin, for those of you...

June 09, 2010

Aw, Gosh and Shucks! A Review of this Hit-and-Miss Blog

Just in from weeding the garden and making some rhubarb crisp for sesshin to find...

June 01, 2010

Three Great Minds

Above is the garden tonight at Yugeji. And below is based on the webinar-ending,...

May 2010

May 28, 2010

How Great Leaders Inspire Action

's Simon Sinek, another talk from TED: Ideas Worth Sharing. Great stuff with lots of...

May 27, 2010

The Teacher-Student Relationship or a Lone Nut?

May 25, 2010

Steve Earle’s “Fort Worth Blues”

May 22, 2010

Karma and Rebirth: Not Good Enough?

Friday morning I was checking in with a co-worker about the day ahead. Somehow the...

May 16, 2010

Joyful Mind, Nurturing Mind, Great Mind: Sesshin Talk

Above is Walden Pond in March, 2010. Here's a sesshin talk, wrapping up the study of...

May 12, 2010

One More Thing about Dropping Body and Mind

One of my favorite past times is to mull the historical research about the early...

May 09, 2010

Was Dogen Enlightened? And An Important New Book On Genjokoan

Shohaku Okumura’s new book, Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo, will be coming out...

May 09, 2010

Ingredients of Community: Wholehearted Play Webinar 8

Here's the webinar from yesterday. We worked with the section of Dogen's Instructions for the...

May 07, 2010

Katagiri Talks on iTunes

Here's a link to about 40 talks by Katagiri Roshi that Minnesota Zen Center posted...

May 05, 2010

Blog Brain Drain

I've been engaged in an active listserve conversation among Zen teachers for the past week...

May 03, 2010

What? Huh?

The Speakerby Louis Jenkins The speaker points out that we don't really havemuch of a...

May 02, 2010

No Lack of Blessings: Wholehearted Play Webinar 7

Here's the webinar on the section from Dogen's Instructions for the Cook that I call...

April 2010

April 29, 2010

Worldchanging: Don’t Just Sit There, Change the World!

Just read "The Bright Green City: Alex Steffen's Optimistic Environmentalism," in the April, 2010 The...

April 29, 2010

Only One and Only

Here's another real dharma, real country tune. Enjoy.

April 25, 2010

I Ain’t Ever Satisfied Dharma Talk

Here's the talk I gave at the Nebraska Zen Center on April 18, 2010. There...