So, in your practice, whether that practice is good or bad, perfect or imperfect, when this kind of mind is at work, your practice is the...

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In this case, the vast sky is my home. There is no bird and no air. Air and bird are one. So Dogen Zenji says, “Bird flies like a bird; fi...

Before you see buddha-nature, you see your mind. You watch your mind. When you watch your mind, when you say, “My zazen is very poor zaze...

As Descartes says, “I think, therefore I am.” Here, “therefore I am”—that “I” is not just small mind. He could not deny that “I” which th...

Topic: A Conversation with David Chadwick at Talking Leaves Bali Time: Feb 8, 2026 02:00 PM Asia/Makassar (that's 10pm Feb.7 West Coast ...

Bodhidharma, the first Chinese patriarch, said, “If you want to see a fish, you have to watch water.” If you want to see a fish, you have...

Rick McDaniel's Zen Conversations and Profiles' excellent piece on Richard Baker . He interviewed Baker for this not that long afte...

The most important thing is to understand our true mind or inmost nature in our practice. How we understand our actual mind should be the...

Richard Jaffe was a student at the San Francisco Zen Center for years. He went on to become a leading Buddhist scholar who has spent a lo...