Zazen has nothing whatsoever to do with whether youre sitting upright or lying down. Examining one of this years Commit to Sit practice texts, Koshin Paley Ellison reflects on the teachings of t

How do you experience the sound of raindrops as they land on the surface of the water? The breeze against your face if youre flying in the sky? Or are you just ambling through your life with closed

All people throughout the world are, without a doubt, equally imprinted with Buddha nature.Eihei Dogen As the Zen Center begins to slowly open its doors for in-person sits, Koshin Paley Ellison a

Part of our practice is to educate ourselves about history but also about how we work with our rage; how we work with our feelings of difference. On May 30th, 2021, the 100th anniversary of the Tu

What do you do in the face of horror, the face of fear, the face of the unknown? How do we give each other the courage to dig into curiosity and generosity? As conflicts in the Middle East spawn r

How can my actions today foster and nourish other peoples spiritual lives? Drawing upon Case 33 of The Book of Equanimity, Koshin details the interaction between Sansh and Sepp, in which the yo

Treading the Mountain Path, The Violets Fill My Heart, With indefinable gracefulness. Though no one pays any attention to the violets along the path, they still bloom, quietly beautifully elegantly.

“The world is a beautiful place to be born into, if you don’t mind a touch of hell.”   On one of the final days of our last practice period, Koshin Paley Ellison discusses the importance of getting up

“But the curse of this charm is exile from the unlucky, how gifts make you deaf to the sudden shout   of a man camped in the ravine, make you blind to the dirty face of a woman with a cardboard sign.

“There is not a single thing that is not Buddha.”   On the night after the center’s first Shuso empowerment, Chodo Robert Campbell discusses the importance of the Shuso, or senior student. As someone