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The Heart of the Matter

From the Summer 2023 Beginner’s Mind Sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center

Published 09/02/23

Living Zen

Published 09/02/23

This Mysterious Life

From Beginner’s Mind Sesshin, January 2023

Published 04/08/23

The One Behind the Name

You have to break through to this.

Published 12/11/22

The Three Essentials

Great faith, great doubt, and great determination are considered to be three essentials for Zen practice. If any of these essentials are absent, we may not accomplish our aim.

Published 09/25/22

Call and Response

Yes!

Published 01/16/22

The Meaning Finds You

How can it be understood?

Published 07/25/21

How to do Nothing

Published 01/17/21

Feeling the Heat

The Practice of Active Acceptance.

Published 09/23/20

Searching for the Mind

Exploring the island.

Published 05/16/20

The Exploration of Self Nature

Leaping Clear of the Many and the One.

Published 12/31/19

The Role of a Lifetime

Are we really who we think we are?

Published 11/30/19

The Oak Tree

What is the Essential meaning?

Published 10/31/19

Who Is That One?

Who is taking care of who?

Published 09/29/19

The Great Silence

The non-dual principle.

Published 08/30/19

Who’s Understanding is it?

Another person can’t enlighten you.

Published 08/01/19

How To Sit

Sitting all the way down.

Published 06/01/19

The True Person Of No Rank

When identities are dissolved, who speaks?

Published 04/30/19

The Most Important Question

Realization beyond words or no words.

Published 01/03/19

Without Deluded Thought

The Sutra of Complete Awakening.

Published 12/07/18

Taking the Backward Step

Going Beyond the Witness.

Published 09/26/18

The Three Pure Precepts

Simple, profound instructions for an upright life.

Published 07/22/18

Where are you going?

Iron Grindstone Lu shatters the bamboo ceiling.

Published 05/30/18

Breathing In, Breathing Out

How do we bring the ancient teachings to life?

Published 04/01/18

Not Knowing

Not-knowing, being intimate with the intrinsic principle

Published 01/10/18