What no eye has seen or ear heard….. In the Zen tradition there is a ritual for tending to and disposing of the remnants… Read More »How to Find God on the Zen Path: The Heart Sutra, The Thread of Love
Spring. The word originally described the action of a watch spring, the mechanism designed to spring forth after being held back. Eventually spring… Read More »Flowers and Weeds by Getsu San Ku Shin
Connections by Ming Zhen Shakya, OHY All religions at their base level – the level at which they intersect the plane of ordinary citizens – are… Read More »Connections: Religion & Spirituality
NEW! Book Review Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng, is remarkable because the author reveals a word of warning to those of us… Read More »Book Review: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Flake of Soap By Fǎshī Lao Yue As I washed my hands a small leaf-shaped flake broke off from the slippery soap bar and… Read More »The Flake of Soap
By Fa Shi Lao Yue….We are the Light of the World Are we at words? I hope not. My purpose in writing this essay is… Read More »Mirror, Mirror: The Riddle of Self Reflection, The Seeker
Heaven and Hell by Ming Zhen Shakya, OHY I wish I didn’t enjoy my prison ministry so much. If it were less agreeable I could make myself… Read More »Heaven and Hell
ON BEING A MASTER When discussing what a “master” is or can be in our tradition with Yao Xiang Shakya, in preparation before her… Read More »On Being a Master: Sinking into the Mud
This morning the dissipating fog and its heavy dew joins a rising sun to teach me that each moment offers… Read More »This Morning
When we first begin our path of self-inquiry, we have often been driven to it by a profound notion that there is something missing in… Read More »When We First Begin by Fa Shi Yao Xin Shakya