This week’s topic for reflection is the first of Dogen’s Eight Awakenings of Great Beings. The eight awakenings are: Having little...

This week’s topic for reflection is the Fourth Great Bodhisattva Vow, the Buddha Way is boundless Compassion, may we realize and...

This week’s topic for reflection is the Third Great Bodhisattva Vow, Dharma Gates are numberless, may we enter them all. This vow...

This week’s topic for reflection is the second Great Bodhisattva Vow, Delusions are held tight, may we see through them. The first vow,...

The next two week’s topic for reflection is the second Great Bodhisattva Vow, Delusions are held tight, may we see through them. The...

This week’s topic for reflection is the first Great Bodhisattva Vow, Beings are everywhere, may we be free. First pause. In order to...

Over the next few weeks the topic for reflection will be the Four Great Bodhisattva Vows. This week I would like to discuss the title and...

This weeks’s topic for reflection is discipline and practice. If you have ever learned to play a musical instrument you are familiar with...

This week’s topic for refection is cause and effect. We all know the law of cause and effect, for every cause there is an effect. In...

This week’s topic for reflection is, what happens when you die? It is often said, “No one knows what happens when you die.” There are...

This week’s topic for reflection is right here on the ground. From the book, “Zen is right here” “A woman told Suzuki Roshi she found it...

This week’s topic for reflection is greed, anger and ignorance. These are referred to as the three poisons and they are the source of...

This week’s topic for reflection is life and death. Being alive, do you view death as an existential threat? Does it seem as though death...

This week’s topic for reflection is beliefs. Please start with your belief about yourself. As Joko Beck said in her book “Ordinary...

This week’s topic for reflection is right effort. Right effort naturally follows last week’s topic, “this moment.” What kind of effort is...

Zazen meditation is training in being present and open in this moment.

Isn’t everything and everyone in this continuous process of transition?

Walking along a volcano.

This week’s topic for reflection is sickness. When I’m healthy, that is my body is healthy, I tend to not be aware of my various systems...

This week’s topic for reflection is hard choices. Choices are not always clear cut where it is easy to see the right thing to do and how...