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Yesterday I was supposed to meet my friends Djinn and Richard in the morning to ride to Golden Gate Park and I could feel myself veering toward staying home, thinking, […]

“passes through fences, walls and mountains unhindered as if through air”

Shohaku Okumura is here at City Center, talking about the Dogen Fascicle called Jinzu, or, in Carl Bielefeldt’s translation, “Spiritual Powers” Okumura gave this translation today, “activities which cannot be

Today I stopped by the California Academy of Sciences to return two library books I’d barely read. The Eye of the Lynx, and In the Blink of an Eye. I

What? Shundo was standing at the sink, rinsing a cup, as the person next to him pressed down on the coffee carafe, and left the kitchen. “Glergle,” he repeated. scooping

I’m sorry, you will have to wait to hear about McDonald’s. Listening to this talk by Enkyo Roshi will be of far greater benefit:

I had the great fortune of hearing Marilynne Robinson read yesterday morning at the MLA conference here in San Francisco. This exchange from the last pages of Gilead feels so

Shundo said this of a cookie that was broken and therefore not suitable to serve for tea.  It is another exemplar of a category many small kitchen items fall into:

My friend Jennie suggested that I continue exploring the concept of the “offered”  in reference to the “shirtless in Hawaii” photos. Here is a stretchy interpretation what constitutes an offering–“tacit

The second Zen Bodhisattva precept cultivates the practice of taking only what is offered. This is a very robust precept and while most of us do not rob banks, it’s