Don’t be bothered by your mind! Drawing by Stan White — cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Su...

Student: Well, in judo if you’re good you get a black belt, so— [laughter]. SR: No—Zen is not physical training. Zen is not sport [laughs...

Our teaching is not, “You should do like this,” or “Society should be like this,” or “Human beings should be like this.” We do not have ...

 Jed Linde sent me this 2018 obituary for Eldon Pura who used to do electrical and heavy equipment work at Tassajara. He was a farmer in Gr...

Everyone is the same under heaven. Everyone is the same in the common bathtub in Japan [laughing]. Do you know the Japanese common bath? ...

We cannot change someone’s character or what they did or will do. It is very difficult. But there is no need to change anyone. If they ha...

Shinshu Roberts  was at the SFZC for years and 18 years ago founded the Ocean Gate Zen Center on 41st Avenue in Capitola next to Santa Cr...

The missionary spirit is not just to spread some teaching of Buddha or to force something on people or to do something in the name of the...

A student asked: What happens if a person dies without realizing his buddha-nature? What happens to his buddha-nature?  What happens to b...

If someone is great, if you have some good example, it will give you some encouragement. But just an intellectual correction will not h...