As I sat sipping my morning coffee, watching the forest wake up, it clicked – curios...
Much older than the others I trudge off to school. And yet somehow as a student I become c...
Sipping dark roast black coffee Barred owl perches on felled cedar branch Beautiful being ...
The other day, I was at Suds, our local laundromat that has an insatiable appetite for qua...
I could leave this story right here, and let it be like a one sentence haiku. But I’...
Most days feel like a full out sprint just to keep up with the very basics of living and, ...
“Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will accept...
There have been several times when I’ve limped up to Orcas Island in the hopes that It m...
suspended breathing in fawn nursing roses over the gate breathing out gravity is a hoax am...
A while ago I read an article about a homeless community in Los Angeles that puts on a pro...
In the last weeks of my Dad’s life, I would come home on the passenger ferry from a day ...
I love etymology- the study of words and how they grow and change and move across time and...
Woke up. This morning. Easily. Rested. So lithely alive. Sweet, after a month of wretched ...
A few years ago, when I was feeling really out of sorts, my psychologist recommended getti...
In spring of 2018, our Abbot traveled to Kyoto. Click here to read his travel blog. ...
Peace isn’t luck for six years stand facing a silent wall until the you of your face mel...
This month in America we celebrate our freedom and independence. But according to Buddhism...
I’m re-reading a book I first read as a monk in training – “The Gift of Fire” by R...
Earlier this month I led a retreat at North Carolina Zen Center, where I started my Zen pr...
Ten years ago we started a Children’s Program at the Zen Center. We’ve done all ki...
I’m happy to report that after a year-long class, four members of our sangha will be tak...
That’s what I was taught during my training at Mt. Baldy Zen Center. It didn’t matter ...
Join Koshin Chris Cain and guests as they discuss connections between spirituality and everyday living during this 2017-2018 series of interviews. We hope you’ll be inspired by these engaging conversations on how to live life with meaning.
The Zen Crossing Radio show also airs Saturday and Sunday at 10am on Voice of Vashon radio. The show is currently on hiatus, with past shows being rerun on the air in 2019. You can click one of the links below to listen to all of the interviews.