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November 2021

November 01, 2021

An Ancient Soto Master’s Praise for the Record of Linji

Tetsugan Sensei and I are living now in what we call the Neyaashi Zen Hermitage,...

August 2021

August 18, 2021

The Shōwa Dispute About True Faith

Introduction In the photo, you see a 1200-page text that contains articles on "The Shōwa...

August 12, 2021

The Record of Empty Hall: Reviews, Talks, Interview

This post contains a collection of information about The Record of Empty Hall. If you'd...

June 2021

June 25, 2021

Xutang’s Blurb for Dogen’s Best Seller

Introduction When I was translating The Record of Empty Hall and working on the commentary,...

June 21, 2021

Zen Conversations: 42 Zen Teachers talk … a short excerpt

Another baby book has birthed and is making...

April 2021

April 01, 2021

Cyber Zen: Practicing Awakening in These Very Times

Above you'll find a talk that I gave on Sunday, March 28, 2021, for...

February 2021

February 15, 2021

Silent Illumination: A Vital New Expression of An Ancient Tradition

Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening, by Guo Gu Laoshi (available now for...

January 2021

January 25, 2021

The Record of Empty Hall: a Selection, a Book Launch Reading, and More

I'm so pleased that The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans will...

January 18, 2021

Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Incredible!

Steven Heine's recent book (September, 2020), Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Giun's Verse Comments...

January 08, 2021

Disclosing Zen Insight: A Great Flower Blossom Net

First, a Brief Update As I hope you have heard, The Record of Empty Hall:...

November 2020

November 08, 2020

Reflections on Zen Practice Now and What Comes Next

Let me insert a short note about monastic practice here. In my view, monastic practice...

September 2020

September 23, 2020

Pick Up The Newspaper! Actualizing The Artificial Bodhisattva

During our nonresidential practice periods at the Minnesota Zen Center in the 1980's, students took...

September 16, 2020

Going Against the Identity Center and Going With: The Missing Motif

In April, in the early pandemic days, I began posting a series here on the...

August 2020

August 19, 2020

Solely Engrossed In One Thing: Dàhuì’s Last List of Don’ts

This summer in the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training we've been focussed on the...

July 2020

July 14, 2020

“Please Sit By The Heater”: On Following A Teacher’s Instructions

Practice at Bukkokuji was like living at grandpa's house. Harada Tangen Rōshi set the rules and...

July 13, 2020

“Hidden Zen: Practices for Sudden Awakening & Embodied Realization” Review

In 2009, I had the pleasure of teaching at what is now the Zen Life...

June 2020

June 23, 2020

Dàhuì’s Second List of Don’ts for the Dog Kōan

One aspect of Dàhuì's teachings, probably best-known today among keyword students, are his instructions on what...

June 06, 2020

Dàhuì’s Don’ts: Still More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì

Introduction This series is especially directed to students working with a keyword (話頭 huàtóu, Japanese, watō) with...

June 04, 2020

Broken To Smithereens: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì

In this final post of the series on the keyword method of Dàhuì, I begin with...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Break Through Is A Must: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì

Let's get right down to it Break through is a must if you want to...

May 26, 2020

“I’m Too Dumb” And Working The Edge Of The Precipice: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì

The main point of this post...

May 22, 2020

Tasteless Within The Tasty: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì

In 1144, Zen master Dàhuì received a letter from a fairly...

May 07, 2020

Saving Energy is Gaining Energy: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì

Awakening is a lot about energy. Slump and sniff in zazen and daily life and...

May 01, 2020

Clicking and Snorting Across The Flood: More On The Keyword Instruction Of Dàhuì

How to cross the flood of sense desires, becoming,...

April 2020

April 24, 2020

Let Go of Making the Ground Flutter: More On The Keyword Instruction of Dàhuì

“When you truly understand this fundamental principle you will not be anxious about your life...

April 17, 2020

Great Uncertainty and the Real Work: More On The Keyword Instruction of Dàhuì

"The mind that is not baffled is not employed." My first real baffling encounter...

April 10, 2020

You Have To Do It On Your Own: The Keyword Instruction of Dàhuì

Some years ago, a Zen teacher was leading a sesshin for Catholic monastics. In the...

April 06, 2020

The Most Revered and Most Reviled Zen Master Ever

Now that I've completed the manuscript edits for The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred...

April 03, 2020

Is There Someone Who Does Not Get Sick?

I recently met with a student (via Zoom, of course) who was recovering from the...

January 2020

January 27, 2020

Zen Flows Through Repetition in the Teacher-Student Relationship

I hope you will find this post as grist for your dharma-reflection mill. You see,...