The important thing is to say “Hai!” or “Yes, I will!” In this way, without having ideas about helping, “Just to be with people will be enough.”
Shosan Ceremony: Awakening the Archive, Tape 23
“Dharma is the thing to which every one of us have been striving for, and will strive for. It is not only you, but all the patriarch and sages.”
Jukai Ceremony at Green Gulch Farm 6/5
Jiryu Rutschman-Byler offered the precepts to two people in a jukai/lay initiation ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on June 5.
Bodhidharma: Awakening the Archive, Tape 22
“[T]he first principle is, you know, the principle which is—which you cannot talk about. And which we transmit … from master to master.”
San Francisco Zen Center Honors Pride Month
On June 26, after a several year hiatus, San Francisco Zen Center will again have a contingent in the LGBTQIA+ Pride Parade. We invite readers of...
Think The Unthinkable: Awakening the Archive, Tape 20
“How do you think the unthinkable … How is the way, unthinkable thinking is how.”
Reflections on the Prajna Paramita: Awakening the Archive, Tape 19
“We only say what we believe in, so that is why you feel that you have understood it [laughs, laughter]. Do you see?”
Alive Until You’re Dead – A New Book by Susan Moon
“Being present at a birth is inspiring. Being present at a death can also open us to vastness and love.”
Meet Erin Merk: Zen Priest and Innovative High School Teacher
Erin appreciates and enjoys the opportunity to be around young people in an educational environment with so much learning energy and interesting faculty members.