About Zen — The Zen of Ikkyu

The Zen Master Offers a Powerful Teaching

Author and translator, R.H. Blyth (Zen and Zen Classics), called Ikkyu Sojun (1394–1481) “the most remarkable monk in the history of Japanese Buddhism, the only Japanese comparable to the great Chinese Zen…

About Zen — A Rinzai Primer

Teachings of Rinzai Gigen

Rinzai Gigen, and his Chinese name of Linji or Lin Chi, was a ninth-century Chan [Zen] teacher in China, for whom we named a current school of Zen practice.

About Zen — A Word from Bhikkhu Bodhi

It’s No Time to be Neutral

Reflections on Trump’s Election Victory

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

When the Biden-Harris team won the election of 2020, it seemed that the specter of Trumpism had been…

About Zen — Zen Master Hakuin

“What Is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?”

About Zen — Breathing

Susokan Described in Detail

About Zen — How to Be in the Moment as Much as Possible

About Zen — About Loving-Kindness

“Zen is the Practice of Returning to Kindness”

About Zen — Meditation in Action

Zen Master Man’an Eishu

In An Elementary Talk on Zen, Japanese Zen Master Man’an Eishu (1591–1654) stressed meditation in action.

“True mind is not remote. It is not a step away, not an inch away, nor a single thought…

About Zen — Zen Discipline

The Form of Wisdom and Compassion

About Zen — All in the Same Boat

The Four Means of Sustaining a Favorable Relationship

[The Flirt, by Winslow Homer]

www.worldometers.info puts the human population at just over eight billion. Each of us emerges, lives, and is counted as a unique…