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This past weekend we honored Shakyamuni Buddha's awakening, conventionally celebrated on December 8,  ("rohatsu" in Japanese.)...

My dear friend, the Zen teacher Dosho Port, recently posted a challenging essay on his blog.  The gist of his message was that Zen communiti...

photo by Pierce Butler  This past weekend, in the midst of our recovery from the US presidential election, we had a deep and community-build...

  A few months ago I received Ethan Nichtern's amazing book, Confidence: Holding Your Seat through Life's Eight Worldly Winds.   I...

photo by Pierce Butler and Corwyn Miyagishima  Another month and another sesshin -- and this one was an anniversary.  Fifteen years ago, Bou...

  photo by Pierce Butler Almost a month ago we had our Distant Temple Bell sesshin on Zoom.  Pictured to the left are many of the attendees....

photo by Michael Herzog   Pictured here are most of the group who attended the third week of our summer residency program, which culminated ...