Once a month grounds and people are transformed through Saturday Samu—from 10 am to 12 n...
In this season of new life, we remember our beloved teacher, Genko Kathy Blackman, who pas...
On August 20, we welcomed roughly 200 people to a festive temple dedication. Thanks to all...
It is exciting to start this year owning a building! We have made a number of improvements...
Tokudo Shiki Initiation, Two New Monks and a Ceremony On August 22nd we held our second ev...
With every sit, we take four vows. This celebration – Juneteenth – is itself a dharma ...
And so our ceremony has concluded And we’ve brought our Buddha home. But every singl...
Prelude to Temple Blessing Way back in time, in the naughts we, the Zen Center, held semin...
This is, to be sure, a watershed moment for our sangha. Thanks to Lisa Deveraeu, who trust...
Like many people studying Zen I regularly read Buddhist texts and I read to realize my exp...
A world shatters. Hafiz enters with the poem How Do I Listen It reads, “How do I listen ...
What is Buddha Nature? Is Buddha Nature a physical state? Do rocks and mountains have Budd...
One evening, a man came home from work and saw his neighbor looking for something under t...
Once upon a time, not long ago, my daughter and I lined up in crowds of people. We brushed...
Driving on the highway for the first time in a long time the other day, I was, for the fir...
One of the best gifts I ever received was when I was in 4th grade. It came from my Aunt....
In the last two days of my Dad’s life, he was in a nursing home. He’d been bro...
Many years ago, when the world was new, when all the animals and birds were MUCH bigger th...
A confession: I’ve been ignoring my toes. There’s really no sense to it. I don...
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...
Traditionally, when a monk or nun enters the Buddhist order, they vow to uphold the many p...
That’s what I was taught during my training at Mt. Baldy Zen Center. It didn’t matter ...
