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Zen Buddhism and Christian mysticism in Conversation

A timely talk by Zen teacher Mo Weinhardt…

No roots. No branches. Clouds. Water.

A small eulogy for the Reverend Doctor Walter Wieder and his path of not knowing

A meditation presented as a sermon for a Unitarian Universalist congregation

A consideration of several koans, principally case 73 in the Book of Serenity

A small meditation in the form of a hastily written letter

A Zen meditation on the 23rd Psalm

Considering the Christian Preferential Option for the Poor in Christianity and Buddhism’s nonduality

a meditation on dying

Getting a handle on a difficult term

A Small Zen Appreciation

The Buddha and the Koan of Awakening

Sessue Hayakawa and the mything of Zen in the West

A moment bent to grace.

Alexandra David Neel died in 1969, just shy of her 101st birthday. I gather one of her last acts was to apply for a renewal for her passport.

James Ishmael Ford's small introduction to Zen library

A look at some statistics

I've seen claims lately that a Third Great Awakening is happening now. I'm skeptical, but let's take a look. What is a Great Awakening?  The Great

Reflecting on a koan and Zen's path of awakening

Nonduality and Theism in Western Contemplative Practice

Finding Our Way in Troubled Times

Opening into the way

YouTube video by Zenways

Hermeneutics as a spiritual practice

Remembering my teacher

Zen practitioner Ilya Vasilyev jailed in Moscow after calling for peace in Ukraine, citing Buddhist ethics.

It's answer is not comforting...

Our profound connections with each other and the world become the background. Everything, every blessed thing is joined most intimately.

Thoughts generated by an anniversary

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama attended a celebration of his 90th birthday according to the Tibetan calendar.

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, has died at 91.

Recalling a six week intensive with Zen Master Willigis Jäeger

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and neighbors in a village in southwest Alaska.

Blue Cliff Record, Case 11 Book of Equanimity, Case 53

After belief falls away? After faith falls away? What does it mean to step away from the hundred foot pole?

A meditation on the family of things

I have years of therapy to help me sort it out. I keep coming back to Zazen. Lesson Four: Allow yourself to fall in love with Zazen.

Hi Tim, Thanks for your comment and your complex question. Briefly, I'd say few of the central elements of the "traditional training container" that we're strong on that are often neglected are illumi...

Zen as a Way of Magical Realism

Zen as the answer for the Spiritual But Not Religious.

Jessica Little reviews new books for the July 2025 issue of Lion's Roar

An Introduction for the Curious, the Skeptical, and the Spiritual but not Religious

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A Reflection on Case Five of the Zen koan collection the Iron Flute