You may feel as if you are fooled by me, but it is not so [laughs, laughter]. It is not a laughing matter. You know, we are seriously confr...

Whatever you call it, that is another name of one reality. Even if you call it mountain or river, that is another name of one reality. So, ...

We say, “evil desires,” [laughs], but it is another name of buddha-nature. For Buddha that is buddha-nature. There is of course, layman and...

So “nature” or “outlook of things” are two names of one thing, one reality. Sometimes we say buddha-nature. Sometimes we say enlightenment ...

This is a talk I gave with the All Beings Zen Sangha in Washington DC on October 19, 2024. Inryu Ponce-Barger is the teacher of this grou...

You think we have buddha-nature within ourselves as innate nature, and because of this nature we do things. That is the usual understanding...

When we say “buddha-nature,” you may think buddha-nature is some innate nature. In Japanese we use the same word—nature—buddha-nature. But ...

I think Kitano Zenji [giving up smoking] is a good example. I’m not trying to convince you to give up smoking, or something like that. But ...

Kitano Zenji was the head monk at Eiheiji Monastery. He told us how he gave up smoking. He told us he was a very bad smoker. But when he wa...

When you eat, for instance, you would rather eat something sweet and nice. But actually, whatever it is we should be ready to accept and ea...