DC reads the Preface to Tassajara Stories. Full title - Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monaste...

In morality you have freedom of choice. You can take bad instead of good [laughs]. But in religion we have no alternative way. But it is o...

I’m going to talk now about the problem of choosing one of the two: good or bad. Refraining from bad to take good is way-seeking mind, not...

When you take a religious viewpoint, everything becomes opposite [laughs]. If you are talking from a scientific standpoint, and we are tal...

When we say, “to observe things as it is” it means “to see things as it should be” [laughs]. For you, these are opposites. For you, “as it ...

Yesterday's Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpt implied that seeing things in a scientific way was to see a flower as static, not something a...

You think “there is a flower.” But the actual flower is changing. But you see the flower— “there is a flower, and this flower is always lik...

David Rogers kindly shared with us Chapter One: the Esselen People a chapter from A History of the Tassajara Region cuke Esselen Indians p...

In our way of Zen, we emphasize the way-seeking mind, in other words, bodhisattva-mind. In Zen, people say “way it is” or “to observe every...

If you cut paper with a razor, the razor will become dull. So, you should not use a razor when you cut paper. That is why Dogen Zenji empha...