An Outpost From A Complex World

When voices are heard Waves break back into themselves And surf crashes sky. In Keisei-Sanshiki Dogen brings up Buddha-Nature and enlighte...

Voices of River, Mountain and Valley faces  — Awaken new Sight. In Keisei-Sanshiki, translated as The Voices of the River Valley and the...

My own conclusions regarding happiness: (a) First, there is no such thing as 'happy forever.' In my opinion, 'happiness' i...

While I was at Antaiji I didn't have the freedom to respond to the calling of a poem. Due to scheduling I had to keep the 'lid on...

What follows is a preliminary, non-inclusive, non-definitive synthesis following my first read through of Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo: In ...

Here is an excerpt of Docho-san's comments on Practice-Enlightenment a during a Rinko given at Antaiji on May 24, 2010. The iPhone ...

For several years of my life I’d developed a bit of resentment for washing up the dishes, since the responsibility always seemed to fall on ...

What follows is a preliminary, non-inclusive, non-definitive synthesis following my first read through of Master Dogen’s  Shobogenzo: T...

I have a few half-written posts on my desktop, but somehow I haven’t been able to motivate myself to finish them or don’t quite know how. On...

I haven’t been in the States for a day yet, but I know I still have a lot to share about my visit and maybe I’ll get around to it. In the me...