Knowing for Yourself Even If There’s Nothing to Know
Here’s a Dutch TV show I was on. It’s in English with subtitles. In this interview I say something that I’ve been saying in a lot of my talks and interviews for the past couple of years. I might have even put this in There is No God and He is Always With You. I […]
Imaginary Conversations
First off, tomorrow, like almost every other Saturday, I’ll be leading Zen at the Veteran’s Memorial Center 4117 Overland Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230. All are welcome! It starts at 10:00am not 9:30 tomorrow. There will be yoga led by Nina Snow before zazen. And next weekend I’ll lead a 2-day retreat at Against the […]

No Justice No Peace?
We are still having trouble with the blog. I can post again, but when you (or I, or anyone else) try to log in to comment it doesn’t work. We’re getting that fixed. For now, I decided it’s better to start posting again than to keep waiting. If you want to comment on this, you […]
We’re Back!
The blog has been down for a few days. You could view it but I couldn’t post anything new and I believe commenting was disabled as well. We did this because we were moving the site to a new server. That’s been done now. So you won’t be seeing those scary warning messages that the […]
Person of No Rank
One day Zen Master Rinzai (Ch. Lin-chi) said, “There is a true man of no rank (ç„¡ä½çœžäºº) in the mass of naked flesh , who goes in and out from your facial features. Those who have not yet testified, look, look!” A monk came forward and said, “Who is this true man of no rank?” Master […]