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Finding ‘This Place’
An edited transcript of teaching given during the lay trainees’ sesshin in August 2024. I’d like to look at what Dōgen means when he says, in Rules for Meditation: “The kōan appears naturally in daily life”.1 This is a clue … Continue reading →
Relation With the Body
In this article, first published online in the Dew on the Grass blog, Anna describes how her childhood experience of pain caused a disconnect between body and mind, as a method of survival, and how Buddhist practice, over time, was … Continue reading →
Dust in the Wind
An edited transcript of a Dharma talk given to the Priory congregation in January 2023. What I wanted to start with for this talk was the line from the Sandōkai that gets brought up many times, the one where it … Continue reading →
Sōtō Zen – Eight Months ‘Within’
I’ve been a lay practitioner at the Columbia, South Carolina Zen Priory for eight months now. Recently, Reverend Master Rokuzan invited the sangha to write an article for the OBC Journal. I have benefitted greatly from the Journal’s articles … Continue reading →
How Do We Hold the Suffering of the World?
An edited and expanded version of a Dharma talk given at Eugene Buddhist Priory, January 2024. For those of you who are familiar with my talks and writing, it won’t be a surprise to you that I am going to … Continue reading →
Light on Change
The Light on Change retreat was held at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey in October 2007. A group of female trainees who are members of the O.B.C, Sangha, and who are all in the latter part of their lives, came together … Continue reading →
A Note on the Names of the Bodhisattvas Who Figure in The Avalokiteshwara Scripture
I was asked last winter, at a meeting of the Sandpoint Meditation Group, who Jiji Bosatsu was. This article, and a related talk, come out of research, and contemplation, that was prompted by that question. The three Bodhisattvas in … Continue reading →