5. Pure but Effortful Concentration on the Method In the fifth phase, there exists only pure counting of breaths. There are neither...

4. Subtle and Unbroken Application of the Method Just as before, you are able to maintain concentration on counting breaths...

3. Coarse but Unbroken Applications of the Method By the third level, you are able to maintain uninterrupted concentration and count each...

2. Initial Efforts to Apply the Methods of Meditation When first taking up the practice of counting breaths, your attention will often...

There have been many new and seasoned practitioners of the Buddha Way that have struggled and continue to struggle with Zazen/Meditation....

NOTE: A recent talk by Roshi Joan Halifax of Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico served as the inspiration for me to write this...

You can never be too compassionate - thinking of the other person and how that person will be affected by your actions towards that...

How many of you have been thoroughly frustrated in your endeavor to follow the precepts? I know I have. How many of us have taken a...

In the evening gatha, chanted by many Zen Buddhist groups, we are reminded that “life and death are of supreme importance, time swiftly...

Dogen teaches in his Mountains and Rivers sutra that, “The walking of the Blue Mountains is swifter than the wind, but human beings in...