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Working Companions
An edited transcript of a Dharma talk given at Shasta Abbey in 2018. You are perfect, just as you are, but you could use a little improvement.1 This is a rather well-known, and to me stunning, quote from Shunryu Suzuki … Continue reading →
My Year with the Precepts and the Dharma of Costco
Adapted from a sangha-led Dharma discussion, February 25, 2024. It’s been about a year since I took the Precepts in May 2023. Yes, I had an idea about what I was doing. No, I had no idea about what “taking … Continue reading →
Buddha Bows to Buddha
First published in the April-June 2024 Berkeley Buddhist Priory Newsletter. The basic teaching in Buddhism is very simple and straightforward. The essence of the Buddha’s Dharma is in the Buddha’s very first teaching after his great enlightenment — the Four … Continue reading →
Sitting With Feelings
A lightly edited transcript of a talk given online at the Priory in 2020. These are challenging times we’re living in, and we might all find ourselves sitting with strong, persistent, recurrent feelings: fear and anxiety; despair, perhaps … Continue reading →
Necessary Fictions
In a recent article, written to mark the centenary of American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin’s birth, Kenan Malik states that Baldwin: “…had to confront not just the fact of being black in an oppressively racist world, … Continue reading →
Upright Presence
A transcript of a Dharma talk given during a meditation period at Throssel’s Segaki retreat in October 2024. In the chapter of Shōbōgenzō, “Shōji”, or “Birth and Death”, Dōgen says the following: This birth-and-death is the life of … Continue reading →