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From Stillness to Expansion: Dogen and Cosmogenesis

In 1924, exactly 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble peered through the darkness of the night sky using the most powerful telescope on the planet and discovered something that astonished the scientific community, including Einstein. Hubble was the first human to witness not just that there are multiple galaxies like our Milky Way, but that they are moving away from each other! This observation forever changed the way we see ourselves in relation to the world.

September 29, 2024 No Comments

Wishing You a Long Life

Wishing You a Long Life Who doesn’t want to live a long life if they are healthy and happy? If we live with confidence in

January 31, 2024 No Comments

Dragons Roar and Cranes Whoop

Dragons Roar and Cranes Whoop Introduction Religious beliefs are many. Some people believe in heaven. Others believe in reincarnation. Some believe there’s only one God,

December 31, 2023 No Comments

Absorbed in a Deep Feeling

Zen is not stoicism. Many people see it otherwise. Stone faces and stiff upper lifts, and a non-challan attitude. But all the Japanese Zen teachers I have trained with were never shy about expressing their true feelings. I’ve seen Zen masters share their joys and sorrows, their hates and their loves, their equanimity and their anxiety. Never did they not care about what was going on around them. They felt it all and felt it fully.

December 5, 2023 No Comments

Eye-Opening Understandings of Merit Never Explained in Western Zen

“Bodhidharma’s Emptiness,” is a story often pointed to as a foundational Zen text, yet one of its central concepts – merit – is assumed intelligible to any western reader. I studied this story for my “Shuso Ceremony,”# and though I became intimate with it some 20 years ago, there’s much of it that I’ve taken for granted. The story appears as the second case in the Shoyoroku, or the Record of Serenity, and as such is of primary importance for understanding Zen. How is it that “merit” has gotten so overlooked?

July 27, 2023 No Comments

Plunge into Free Fall Meditation

Plunge into Free Fall Meditation Zazen as Freefall Zen Master Jingqing asked one of his students, “What’s that sound outside?” The student replied, “It’s the

June 13, 2023 No Comments

Ascending to Sincere and Devoted Practice

“Even people in the secular world must concentrate on one thing and learn it thoroughly enough to be able to do it in front of others rather than learn many things at the same time, without truly accomplishing any of them.”

June 2, 2023 No Comments

Seeing Through The Troubles of Life

What if we were to accept that our view of the world is almost always concealed, limited, and incomplete? What if we were to accept that what we are seeing is never the full picture?

April 23, 2023 No Comments

Willing Heart is the Dojo

The Dojo is not a place, but an orientation towards life.

April 22, 2023 No Comments

Don’t Be Fooled By Walking Mountains

Bald Eagle Mountain range was not named after the bird, as I once thought, but a leader within the Lenape (better known as the Delaware) tribe, a community of indigenous people that still exists today. This tribe has three clans within it, one of which is known as the “Muncy.”

March 29, 2023 No Comments

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