January 2008 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM

A thousand years ago, the whole of the koan way was summed up in a brief series of intriguing questions and answers : What is Zen? Snow in a silver bowl … What is the Way? The clear-eyed person falls into a well … What is the blown-hair sword? Each branch of coral holds up the light of the moon.

July 3, 2008 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM

A fire rages, and the poet Robinson Jeffers speaks in his words and his life to how we hold terror and beauty, life and death, at such a time — and in the ordinary moments of our lives.

July 3, 2008 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM

A fire rages, and the poet Robinson Jeffers speaks in his words and his life to how we hold terror and beauty, life and death, at such a time — and in the ordinary moments of our lives.

July 3, 2008 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM

A fire rages, and the poet Robinson Jeffers speaks in his words and his life to how we hold terror and beauty, life and death, at such a time — and in the ordinary moments of our lives.

July 3, 2008 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM

A fire rages, and the poet Robinson Jeffers speaks in his words and his life to how we hold terror and beauty, life and death, at such a time — and in the ordinary moments of our lives.

July 3, 2008 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM

A fire rages, and the poet Robinson Jeffers speaks in his words and his life to how we hold terror and beauty, life and death, at such a time — and in the ordinary moments of our lives.

July 3, 2008 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM

A fire rages, and the poet Robinson Jeffers speaks in his words and his life to how we hold terror and beauty, life and death, at such a time — and in the ordinary moments of our lives.

May-June 2008 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM

One of the streams that flowed into Chan and the koans was the mythology of pre-Buddhist, pre-Confucian China. Here are some notes on ancient Chinese ideas of meditation and awakening, based on Stephen Karcher's work on the Yijing (Book of Change). (image - Stephen Karcher)

May-June 2008 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM

One of the streams that flowed into Chan and the koans was the mythology of pre-Buddhist, pre-Confucian China. Here are some notes on ancient Chinese ideas of meditation and awakening, based on Stephen Karcher's work on the Yijing (Book of Change). (image - Stephen Karcher)

May-June 2008 | Cerro Gordo Temple | Santa Fe, NM

One of the streams that flowed into Chan and the koans was the mythology of pre-Buddhist, pre-Confucian China. Here are some notes on ancient Chinese ideas of meditation and awakening, based on Stephen Karcher's work on the Yijing (Book of Change). (image - Stephen Karcher)