March 7, 2019 Enkyo Roshi offers a teaching about teaching, how the best use of spiritual authority is to help us live from our own truth. Case 23 from the Mumonkan, “Think Neither Good Nor Evil,” illumines the nature of transmission.

February 9, 2019 Zazenkai Ryotan Sensei punctures the idea that ideas are not the real deal, and then points to precepts as the manifestation of the whole universe. Can we actualize with all sentient beings?

Myoko Sensei reflects on how the universe can abruptly bare its randomness and shift our reality like a flipping dime. What do we do when there’s nothing to be done? Practice teaches us to open the window and stay close to just what is happening—allowing the rain and the cool breeze in to penetrate even […]

February 17, 2019 Bokushu Hoshi gives the second of a series of talks on the Four Vows. How can we practice with and relate to our inexhaustible desires?

February 10, 2019 Enkyo Roshi asks how we can embody the compassion of  Avalokiteshvara. Like reaching behind ourselves for the pillow in the night, we respond with the whole body, giving and receiving.

January 20, 2019 In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Ryotan Sensei challenges us to see the reality of racism clearly so that we can take effective action right now. The three pure precepts light the way.

January 17, 2019 Ryotan Sensei observes how a poem by Ryokan points to the confusion between words or concepts and reality itself.

Kaku Hoshi looks at Dogen’s “The Moon Shining on All Beings and Oneself,” and draws lessons on joy and the power of taking care of ourselves.

In this talk Roshi sees our society in a desperate gesture to distinguish what is perceived as different. What is me, and what is not me. Whether it is class, gender, religion or race – how do we get caught in bias that leads to fear and hostility? With the help of a poem by […]

Jo An shares his experience of working as a school nurse with a diffabled kindergartener, and what he learned about the dharma of elementary school.