The beloved Buddhist monk reminds us to end all striving; to simply kiss the earth with our feet.
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Writer Kim Rosen raises questions about Zen, openness, and the “desperation” of the creative process.
Zen is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China, when Buddhists were introduced to Taoists.
Written by the first and only layperson to receive full dharma transmission in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Zen lineage, A Bigger Sky explores what it means to traverse the gaps of a Buddhism created by and for men, navigate the seemingly contradictory domains of secular and spiritual life, and walk a...
In The Zen of Therapy, Mark Epstein weaves together two ways of understanding how humans can feel more settled in their lives.
Today, we go to my parents' house. There is a Buddhist altar to pray to our ancestors. Let me show you how to pray.
Roshi Hogen Bays examines the difference between the concepts of skeptical doubt and the Great Doubt in Zen Buddhism.
I follow a way of doubt. I follow a way of energy, sometimes even a way of wrath. But, in the last analysis I’ve found this way is one of putting down my opinions and opening up my heart.
Ethan Nichtern shares a conversation with Caverly Morgan about bringing mindfulness and meditation practices into the education system.
Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison visits The Road Home Podcast for a conversation about taking a wholehearted approach to our dharma practice.
No other figure in history has played a bigger part in opening the West to Buddhism than the eminent Zen author, D.T. Suzuki, and in this reissue of his best work readers are given the very heart of Zen teaching.