Zazen What Was Bodhidharma Really Doing? On The Importance of Breaking Through Walls If we cling to walls about dharma practice, how can we break through?
Vine of Obstacles Zen Featured Four Big Juicy Factors of the Zen Way Many practitioners languish in their home practice, tormented by small doubt, due to the difficulty of implementing Zen practice in non-residential settings.
Vine of Obstacles Zen Featured Vine of Obstacles Zen Training: What's the Point? Wholeheartedly doing the training just for the love of the buddhadharma.
Not Misusing Sexuality Not Misusing Sexuality: The Naked-Woman Koan “All of the buddhas of the three worlds, the six ancestors, and all the great monks everywhere—they all come out from within this.”
Paid-members only Record of Going Easy Nanquan Beheads a Cat: Putting the Two Together with One Stroke of a Blade
Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts Cats, Cars, and Categories: The Wondrous Subtlety of the Buddhadharma One crucial point in this work is to grok the subtle truth of these three perspectives with the whole bodymind. Wallowing in moralism is dangerous. Realizing emptiness is not enough.
Householder Zen Featured Can Householders Really Do The Work of Zen? You will need to let go of living your life based on fleeting and fickle human feelings. Beyond that, it is really simple. Find teachers with a training program that challenges you to throw yourself into the house of Buddha with wild abandon.
Members only Formless atonement Featured The Interacting Communion of Appeal and Response: Kanno Doko
The Platform Sutra Featured What is Shugyo 修行 (aka "Cultivating Conduct")? "Shugyo refers to training the whole being in the most profound manner by taking the wisdom of awakening itself as the basis of training."
Members only The Platform Sutra "Do I Need A Teacher or Not?" The Quirky Perspective of the Platform Sutra
Platform Sutra The Platform Sutra's Nonabiding "If you can clear away grasping mind, you will be permeated with non obstruction."
