In The Light: Dogen’s Divine Light
Here’s my new podcast: https://hardcorezen.podbean.com/e/in-the-light-dogen-s-divine-light-part-one-re-upload/ And below is the text I am reading from, including some of the notes I used in the podcast. In The Light This old Chinese Zen Master named Chosa Shoken, whose nickname was “the Big Cat,” once told his group, The whole universe is a monk’s eye. The whole universe […]
2022 European Tour
August 31, 2022 TALK at 5pm at Bar O in Turku, FINLAND September 1-4, 2022 RETREAT in FINLAND kajozendo@gmail.com September 4, 2022 TALK plus Q&A at 7pm at MUSTA KISSA in Helsinki, FINLAND September 7-11, 2022 RETREAT at BENEDIKTUSHOF September 11, 2022 Public TALK at BENEDIKTUSHOF September 12, 2022 Ko Getsu An near BONN, GERMANY info@zen-bonn.de September 13, 2022 TALK […]
Preview of My New Book!
The following is an excerpt from my new book THE OTHER SIDE OF NOTHING. This is Chapter 36, entitled “Who Walked My Dog?”. It’s my favorite chapter. This isn’t the whole chapter — you’ll have to get the book to read that! But it’s most of it. Enjoy! Just a few of minutes ago, I […]
The Buddhist View on Suicide
The following first appeared on the Suicide Girls website in 2013. I have revised it a little. The most famous rock and roll suicide is, of course, Kurt Cobain. To me, though, the most important rock and roll suicide was one you probably never heard of; the suicide of Robert “Iggy Nition” Morningstar, lead singer […]
So You Want to Be a Dharma Teacher
When I first started getting into Zen there was a brief period when I thought I wanted to be a dharma teacher. I remember telling my first teacher, Tim, I wanted to be a dharma teacher and he just gave me a look. It’s hard to describe that look, but I remember how it felt. […]
