Zuisei's Writing

Though our worlds fall apart, with faith and practice, they can be rebuilt.

On the four kinds of faith and their importance for the path

On the eight worldly winds and their antidotes

On the Buddhist factors that make up repentance and atonement.

On the Buddhist factors that make up repentance and atonement.

Beyond the edge of what we can see, there is a whole other realm of experience

When we pair the three doors of body, speech, and mind with the three sila factors: right speech, right action, right livelihood, we have instructions for good and ethical living

The practice of right relationship rests on the acknowledgment of our interdependence

We suffer because we have what we don't want, we want what we don't have, or we have what we can't keep

The practice of contemplating the koan Mu as the vehicle for the realization of our buddha nature

Despite our insistence in finding fault everywhere, life is not but. Intrinsically, life is and

Emptiness isn’t a void; it’s a container brimming over with possibilities

The four bodhisattva vows are impossible—and it’s in this impossibility that their power lies

Stop, soothe, shift: three steps that help us do what helps, not what harms

The Buddha said that having noble friends is the prerequisite for awakening

Syzygy is the alignment of celestial bodies. In Buddhism, it’s Indra’s Diamond Net

Perhaps to be silent is to know that true intimacy can only be reached in silence

What did the Buddha mean when he taught: “This is not me, this is not mine, this is not myself”?

We all want to know that we are fundamentally okay, independently of others opinions and judgments

The “peculiar gift” of contemplation and the ways it changes what we see

A bodhisattva needs to be both tender and fierce in order to use anger as a pure form of care

Interdependence is not unlike the entanglement of particles that “know” one another’s actions

Ilness can teach us to accept and even embrace what is

What if emptiness isn’t really empty but filled with love?

We sit zazen, not to change the world, but so that the world, with is confusion and conflict, won’t change us

Sacred space is the place where, leaving safety behind, we create the unimagined.

What does it mean to “shelter in place” when the shelter is the Three Treasures of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha?

In the words of Zen master Dogen, shikantaza is the “gate of ease and joy”—an easeful, clear, quiet meditation

The four immeasurables of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity as a science of compassion