An Outpost From A Complex World

I've been wanting to tell folks about a discovery that caused a bit more of the Shobogenzo fall into place for me. I intended to write a...

Today my Sangha performed a Ceremony of Aid. This ceremony usually includes two repetitions of Heart of Perfect Wisdom and five repetitions...

The phrase 'Mind Cannot be Grasped', the title of Shobogenzo Chapters 18 and 19, is from the Diamond Sutra. An implication of the ...

Buddha mind is just connecting. Connecting with what is present. Connecting without expectation. Connecting without expectation for the mo...

The mind likes to make and tell stories. But what I've begun to sense as I've gotten further into the Shobogenzo is that the thought...

In any given moment the extent to which we are able to let go of our expectations for that moment determines our ability to access peace, c...

September skies and a mist hanging over the grass tug me back towards the lost and lonely, though that isn't exactly the truth. Somethin...

The reality that exists as it is is a treasure, is brightness, is a seat of truth... - Dogen It's been awhile since I've written ...

Found in the memory of that day, Is a moment, a point in time when The sun stood still, A precise moment when the sun, Suspended at one o...

Over the last couple of years I have been questioning myself about the nature of equanimity and have found that the following two responses,...