Pseudo Dionysius was a 5th century Syrian monk who wrote in Greek The Mystical Theology , his most famous work. It's like the Heart Su...

To study something is to find out what you have learned before. To hear something is to hear what you have studied. And in this way your mi...

When your mind is directed outward, you lose power in your tanden. When your effort is concentrated inward, you have power within yourself,...

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In Zen there are many functions, like to give a shout like thunder, or to whack something. There are many kinds of way. But those activitie...

The point is not to mix up true zazen practice with some other practice like something intellectual because the way we study is quite diff...

To talk about the merits of Zen for beginners is like counting others’ treasures. So, we do not talk about the merit of Zen. The only way i...

Alan Hozan Senauke, abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center, dear friend, and founding member and director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship died on...

So, we must go step by step. We must make mule steps [laughs], better than a horse’s, maybe. The cow step is best for us, but that is too s...

In Japan scholars and teachers study Zen and Buddhism from various angles. But if they ignore real practice, it may be like counting the sa...