Student E: From time to time you emphasize a different recommendation for how we practice or do zazen. Breathing, watching our breath, or c...

Student D: This is-- I'm not sure how to put the question, but last night you said that when we find the true power of zazen we wouldn...

First of all, when you want to be a Buddhist, you should understand emptiness, or you should give up substantial viewpoint of life. But you...

I am very grateful for you to make various offering to the altar. Sometime, you know, wildflower, sometime stone, or candlestick. This is t...

If you understand this kind of spirit of making offering, as Dogen Zenji says, offering should be like to offer the flower which blooms in ...

If you understand how things are going completely, you should continue your practice as things are going. This is the point of practice.   ...

We practice our way to solemnize this dharma world. Without practice things don't mean anything. Because of our practice, things come t...

from Steve Frost , a Catholic Priest whose been featured on cuke a number of times through the years.

Usually when you bow to Buddha you look like you are respecting Buddha, but actually why you bow to Buddha is to continue your practice. Th...

When we have this understanding, we have no more idea of self. Instead of having idea of self, we will see the Buddha in each world. So thi...