A reflection on climate activist Greta Thunberg and others who have shaped their lives around a singular intention. How do we root ourselves that deeply?

On taking up a path that has boundaries that were created by people centuries ago—why do we do it, and how do we do it sincerely?

The three poisons—attachment, aversion, and ignorance—and how sometimes ignorance is at the centre.

What do we need to take with us on this path? If that's different from what we want, how do we reconcile the two?

There is a difference between how we address the complexity of identity in ourselves, and how we relate to it in others. The approach can't be the same.

We chant, "Now, actualizing the buddha ancestors means to bring them forth and look at them respectfully. It is not limited to the buddhas of past, present, and future, but it is going beyond buddhas who are going beyond themselves." What's it all about?

Every teacher and every temple have different ideas about the student-teacher relationship; Koun shares some of his perspective on the complexity of it all.

Bodhidharma famously described Zen as a "special transmission outside the scriptures". What does that mean and why does it matter?

The ground of this practice isn't what we experience, or what we feel, or even what we see—it's what we do, regardless of the rest.

We talk a lot about some experience called "awakening," but the real task is simply to be awake.