From the SFZC Facebook page : New Suzuki Roshi Book: Becoming Yourself SFZC and TarcherPerigee (a Penguin Random House imprint) are pleased...

First of all, you should know that with ordinary effort you cannot practice our way. — cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the phot...

To attain enlightenment means to have a kind of complete composure in our life, without any discrimination. But, at the same time, if we st...

Laurie Senauke writes: Hozan Alan Senauke is giving the Dharma talk this Saturday, 10:15am, at the Berkeley Zen Center . If you are local, I...

The difference between Baso and we ordinary people is for Baso whatever happens to him, he can accept things as it is, as it happens. But w...

When I am sick, I may be the moon-faced buddha [laughs]. When I am healthy, I am the sun-faced buddha. But “the sun-faced buddha” or “the m...

Zen master Baso was big; physically he was very strong and a man of great physique. And when he spoke, his tongue covered his nose. Maybe ...

Amber Hoadley was the first baby at Tassajara in the Zen era. In our podcast she talks about growing up at Zen Center, mainly Green Gulch,...

The purpose of zazen is to make ourselves physically strong, maybe to make our mind healthy and body healthy. But healthy mind is not ju...

My voice may not be so good yet [after being sick], but today I’m testing. If I speak or not, is not such a big problem for us. Whatever ha...