A talk on the practice of Open Awareness (shikantaza).
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Zuisei offers the most powerful way to face the heart of loneliness and to shed the ignorance that sustains it.
Read MoreRelating daily life and practice to Koso Uchiyama’s contemporary Zen text on the importance of zazen and letting go of thoughts in order to see the nature of the self…
Read MoreWhere we are and what we are doing is exactly right—even when it’s a struggle…
Read MoreDelve into Koso Uchiyama’s contemporary Zen text on the importance of zazen and letting go of thoughts in order to see the nature of the self…
Read MoreLooking towards restorative justice and koan practice to understand what it means to be fully present and open to all the circumstances of our lives, no matter how challenging…
Read More“What conditions do we need to be truly happy?” Thich Nhat Hanh asks. It’s another way of asking, Do we understand how the seeds of our experiences shape the way we perceive our lives? Thich Nhat Hanh’s text on the Fifty Verses shows us that it’s not what happens to us that determines…
Read MoreI can’t. I won’t. This is the sound of fear in the lead. And a sign to look closer.
Let’s return to the three steps or ways to enter our zazen—failing, falling, and feeling—and study the fear that often holds us back from fully realizing them…
While acknowledging that practice does not always come easily, Zuisei gently and skillfully guides us in the art of shikantaza, “the gate of ease and joy” as Dogen called it…
Read MoreWhen your enthusiasm for practice slows or seems to come to a halt, what can you do to spark it up again? If you’re unable to practice in a formal way, does it “still count” as practice? In this threaded talk…
Read MoreWe don’t always know we’re perfect, we don’t always feel complete, yet fundamentally, both are true of who we are…
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