- Street Retreat 2014 Recap
A particularly easy and enjoyable street retreat, marked by abundance. Two homeless people joined us, plus a security guard!
- Begging
I need to raise $500 for homeless services by May 8 so I can go on a Zen street retreat.
- Invitation to a Zen Street Retreat, May 2014
Roshi Genro Gauntt and I invite you to join a street retreat in New York City, May 8-11, 2014.
- The Time Capsule
The Diamond Sutra has been flung into the future the way the Pioneer probes were flung into space.
- Year End
The year in review: Motor, Toro, and asyncio.
- Shuso Hossen, Summer 2013
Ikai gave her first dharma talk at the Village Zendo's summer 2013 meditation retreat.
- Mukei
Portrait of a Zen practitioner, August 2013.
- Enkyo and Tendo
Lifelong friends, at the Village Zendo's summer meditation retreat this August.
- Zen Mountain Center
My old monastery is in danger.
- Zen at War
On the eve of war with Syria, it's a good time to republish my 2008 review of Brian Victoria's "Zen at War".