What is at the core of resolve? We think of it as a decision to do something, but we can also understand it as a choice to plant ourselves where we are.

Following an eye-opening ceremony at ZNS's new location, a discussion of how we see the Buddha, and how buddhas see.

How do we commit to doing our best while honestly confronting the impossibility of getting it just right?

From Dogen's Zuimonki 6-17: "Forget not only the different views on the dharma, but also worldly affairs, and hunger and cold as well... When you listen with this attitude, you will be able to clarify the truth and resolve your questions."

On the legend and legacy of Bodhidharma, the first Zen ancestor in China.

We all want to be inspired, but inspiration can only get us so far. What do we feel, beyond inspiration, that drives us?

We know there's delusion, but what do we think we see if we see completely past delusion? Layer after layer, it's still our own creation. What do we do with that?

Why do we practice? Why do we gather in this way, sit in this way? Why do any of it? It starts with not knowing why.

How we hold the precepts and what we might get wrong.

On Buddhism, plateaus, and the idea that there are tools we can use to progress in the practice.