Sit, Breathe, Bow

How can we not be deluded? By investigating the great matter of life and death, we see what our thinking creates. By using the Four Great Vows as a guide we see more clearly how to help.

Practice is doing something with intention. You enter into a moment deliberately. You choose into it. There is a willingness to be here. It is an attitude of mind.

There is a process of growing into our roles as students and as teachers. There is a discipline but also a willingness to play and even provoke as we find a way to live within the tradition and to make it a home of our own.

Each of us has a job to do and it depends on what is happening right in front of us. There is a role we play that asks for something specific. What is your job?

The challenges of the pandemic can provide the opportunity for us to see deeply into the many ways that we can connect with others.

Kozan shares his own journey as a priest and activist and how we can use the practice to provide a foundation for our work as people committed to healing our communities.

What is a great woman? The practice of Zen is about looking inward and seeing who you really are and what this life is about.

Everything is Included Here. Practice isn't about finding the perfect situation, it is about welcoming what is present and not making it wrong.

Your life is Zen. If you try to make your life Zen, then you are adding something. Don't make distinctions, don't make differences, and live your life in the present.

The essence of faith is not faith in some thing. It is not an object. It is the absence of doubt. When we are truly entrusting in the heart, there is no faith there just is no doubt. Faith is the eyes we are looking through, the ears we are hearing with. It is the doubtless, present awareness that allows what is arising to arise as intimate and worthy of engaging.