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August 2013

August 10, 2013

Vine of Obstacles Online Support for Zen Training: Applications Now Being Accepted

Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training is a new way of studying Dogen...

August 06, 2013

What is the Minimum Amount of Asceticism Required?

"What is the minimum amount of asceticism required?" That's the question a fine young practitioner...

July 2013

July 28, 2013

Do Not Waste Your Time Admiring a Painted Rice Cake: Kukai and Dogen on the Art of Enlightenment

Pamela D. Winfield has undertaken a wonderfully detailed and intelligent study, Icons and Iconoclasm in...

July 24, 2013

A Gentle, Caring Way of Life: Dreaming of Dharma Transmission Plum Blossoms

One of the many sweet things about teaching through the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support...

July 20, 2013

Shikantaza: Busy, Busy Karmic Consciousness – When Will it Rest?

My friend and teacher, James Ford, has a recent Monkey Mind post (click here), "Assuming...

July 09, 2013

Lose Your Body Beneath the Patched Robe

"Lose your body beneath the patched robe" is a line from a Stonehouse poem (p....

June 2013

June 30, 2013

Repaying Our Debt of Gratitude to Those Who’ve Gone Before Us

For the upcoming workshop on the spirit, principles and practices of Zen priest home leavers...

June 27, 2013

Zen in America and Exclusive Humanism

Here's the first buzz of my square head, administered by my dad with big sister...

June 24, 2013

Peaceful Sitting: Sitting for Peace

Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede (front and center) recently sent this photo (me, back and right) from...

June 05, 2013

Zazen: Just Turn the Light Around

The essential instruction for zazen practice in the Zen tradition from Shitou's (700-790) "Song of...

June 01, 2013

Why Won’t the Idol Deliver?

Oh why, oh why won't the idol deliver? That phrase is from an astute Viner...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Beyond the Ocean Great Tides Memorial Day

This morning after zazen, we offered incense and the recitation of the Heart Sutra to...

May 24, 2013

Full Moon, One Peace

Blue depths ten thousand ages old, the moon in an empty realm; You’ll only know...

May 21, 2013

Buddha Crosses the Flood

In Vine of Obstacles practice meetings, a passage from The...

May 11, 2013

Tossing Out the True Teacher and Bringing in the Barely Good Enough

In the Vine of Obstacles: Support for Online Zen Training, the first focus for study...

May 08, 2013

What Good is Zen?

What good is Zen? What can we expect from our practice? Is Zen about transformation?...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Vine of Obstacles Update: What Would the Old Guys Say?

Online Zen training? What would the old guys say about that? I don't know. The...

April 25, 2013

Reflecting the Full Pink Moon Tonight

I've been enjoying the run-up to the full moon. Both of the last two nights,...

April 19, 2013

The Future of Zen Practice in One Word: Celebrating Successes and Embracing Technology

Most Zen practitioners today do what I call "home-based practice" rather than monastic or center-based...

April 16, 2013

Zen is Simple: Pay Attention, Be Kind, Remember that the World is Vast and Wide

I'm back from sesshin in Omaha. "Pay Attention, Be Kind, Remember that the World is...

April 06, 2013

The Life of a Dog: Dragging a Stick Horizontally Through a Vertical World

This morning I came across pictures of Bodhi trying to thread a stick horizontally through...

April 01, 2013

New Twists in Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training

Yes, I've jumped into the online world, determined to offer the best Zen training possible....

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Reaching Out a Hand: Birth, Death, and Raw Zen

Recently a Zen student who had been working with one of the koans in the...

March 24, 2013

Taking Refuge in a Coffin: Is This Life One or Two? And Who Knows?

One of the themes that's been coming up lately for practitioners in these parts (yes,...

March 21, 2013

What is Refuge?

"Taking Refuge in Evil Buddhas?" What you say? In my last post, I discussed this...

March 17, 2013

On Taking Refuge in Evil Buddhas

In a recent fine talk, Absolute Refuge, Jiryu Mark Rutschman Byler shares the practice of...

March 15, 2013

Arousing the Way Seeking Heart

What is the Way Seeking Heart? Sometimes it is referred to as the "thought of...

March 08, 2013

Invitation to Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training

“Practice intimately, working within, like a fool, like an idiot. If you can achieve...

March 04, 2013

Expressing a Dream Within a Dream Audio

Sweeping Zen Audio now has a couple more talks, "Expressing a Dream in a Dream,"...

March 02, 2013

The King is Dead, Thank God: Reflections on New Training Models for Zen in the Global Culture

The other day I was talking with some of my Zen teacher buddies about the...