2026-08-10 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen by Appamada

2026-08-04 I Inquiry Accepting Yourself Completely I Josh Gifford by Appamada

2026-08-03 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen by Appamada

This week, we’ continue to explore Zen’s understanding of time and the moment. Conventionally, we think of the past as a place things go to stay put — old mistakes, former selves, the people we've lost, with all of it shrinking into the distance. Dōgen, characteristically, disagrees. This Sunday, we sit with his strange claim that time does not pile up in a row, which has implications for what we carry and what we release.

Illustration: Hasegawa Tōhaku, Pine Trees (c. 1595) Tokyo National Museum

2026-07-28 I Slippery words I Inquiry Joel Barna by Appamada

2026-07-27 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen by Appamada

2026-07-26 | Dharma Talk | What is a Moment? | Nate Smalley by Appamada

Nate Smalley offers the first of several talks on "Zen and the Moment". He spent a morning dismantling the common understanding of a time, perhaps discovering that what's left is stranger, and kinder.

“The precept today is giving, the joy of giving. Everything is something which was given; every existence in nature, every existence in human world, every cultural work we do is something which was given to us or which is being given to us, relatively speaking. But actually everything is originally one. So it may be better to say we are giving out everything. It is the same thing. Relatively speaking everything is something given to us but actually we are giving everything -- giving out or expressing out moment after moment we are creating something, moment after moment. This is the joy of our life.”

~ Shunryu Suzuki

2026-07-22 | Depth In Practice | The Sutra of Hui-neng Grand Master of Zen by Appamada