Remember the first of the Ten Grave Precepts?  “Do not kill.” While this translation is easier for Western people to grasp, the Japanese...

Yesterday was December 7, 2013 Pearl Harbor Day a fortuitous day in American History and a day of silent meditation for those who lost...

In Thai, they have a word for practice–patibat–which also means looking after someone, to attend to someone’s needs.  In the practice of...

I am reading this wonderful new book by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt  titled The Essential Dogen Writings of the Great Zen Master....

The world goes round and round and every so often something comes back into your life most unexpectedly.  This, for me, is just another...

Today was one of those days when I was rushing around to get my mother ready to go to the Alzheimer’s Daycare Center so I could go to...