As a big tree in Muir Woods has annual layers, if you cut your life in another way, we have annual layers in our life, I think. That is pre...

Obituary for Maureen (O'Shea) Magarity Back around 1980, Maureen and her husband Tim O'Shea lived at Yvonne Rand's place in M...

My teacher Kishizawa Roshi always said, “You have to have a vow or aim to accomplish.” If you do not have your aim of life, you cannot be a...

In your everyday life, without any purpose or any aim, you cannot organize your life. Without knowing what you are going to be [laughs], yo...

Kathie Fischer began practicing Zen in 1971 with Sojun Mel Weitsman at the Berkeley Zen Center. She was ordained a Zen priest at San F...

Update on Baker Roshi's Health from Dharma Sangha's Dharma Academy newsletter Richard Baker Recovery page ...

It is not possible to concentrate on some uncertain way. There must be some accurate way to observe. There must be strict rules to ob...

If you want to practice this kind of practice as a good example of everyday life, you need your friends, you need your teacher, you need t...

Enlightenment is not some certain stage. Enlightenment is everywhere. Wherever you are, enlightenment is there. Whatever you do, if you d...

Our effort is to observe precepts. If we give our best effort each moment with confidence, that is enlightenment. Don’t ask whether a way i...