evening sunshinecat and dog trot side-by-sidealong city street Support Our Dharma Work
Dogo
summer rainy cigarette
man on bicyclepedalling through summer rainsmoking cigarette Support Our Dharma Work
Two Years of Pandemic, Two Years of Practice
The content of this post first appeared in the newsletter published by the author’s sangha, City Cave Zen. When the pandemic took hold, my sangha, City Cave Zen, decided to try holding meetings online, to meditate, chant and discuss the Dharma in a way that would be as similar to physical meetings as we could make […]
Poem for Chris La Tray
you pour coffee into your cupin montana it turns into tea in my cupin scotland Support Our Dharma Work
Pandemic Winter Haiku
hospital window —outside, waving and smiling,tears falling on frost Support Our Dharma Work
At the Altar
offering flowers to ancestorsoffering ancestors to flowersoffering incense for people unseenoffering people unseen to incenseall directions one direction no directionempty hands full palm to palm Support Our Dharma Work
Medicine and Sickness, Heaven and Hell
“Medicine and sickness heal each other. The whole world is medicine.” —Blue Cliff Record, Case 87 In this week’s Dharma talk, I mentioned a parable that’s been on my mind lately. I don’t know its origin — I’ve heard different versions, some attributing it to the Zen or Taoist traditions, but I haven’t been able […]
