If you want to practice this kind of practice as a good example of everyday life, you need your friends, you need your teacher, you need t...

Enlightenment is not some certain stage. Enlightenment is everywhere. Wherever you are, enlightenment is there. Whatever you do, if you d...

Our effort is to observe precepts. If we give our best effort each moment with confidence, that is enlightenment. Don’t ask whether a way i...

Dogen Zenji actually was enlightened when he heard a disciple being hit by his master. “What are you doing? You have to make hard effort. ...

The secret of observing precepts is to practice Zen. Because if you practice Zen, the dualistic idea of to observe or not to observe takes ...

  Here's a page on cuke.com for Richard Baker's recovery from his stroke. Nothing new. A few photos. Will add to it.

We say, “Zen practice and precepts is one.” To observe precepts is to practice Zen. It is the same thing. In precepts we have—not moral ...

Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler is the abbot of Green Gulch Farm as a co-abbot of the SF Zen Center. In the podcast he talks about Becoming Y...

If your effort is based on big mind, you cannot get out of it. It is so big that you cannot get out of it. But if your small self starts ...

All those difficulties you have in zazen should not take place outside of your mind. All those efforts should be kept within your mind. In...