- Heading Out
I'll be on the streets Thursday through Sunday.
- I Will Pick Up What Others Discard
- Begging
I need to raise $500 for homeless-services organizations by May 2 so I can go on a street retreat.
- Shuso Hossen, Spring 2013
The Village Zendo's ceremony in which R. Liam Oshin Jennings gave his first dharma talk.
- Invitation to a Zen Street Retreat
Roshi Genro Gauntt of The Zen Peacemakers and Hudson River Zen Center invites you to join a street retreat in New York City, May 2-5, 2013.
- Ordinary Zen
A portrait series of Zen practitioners.
- A Village Zendo Scrapbook
Since, as I have mentioned recently, Zen is very much an accredited situation, my temple sends annual reports to The Soto School of North America, which itself answers to Soto Zen HQ in Kyoto. It's been pointed out to us that no one wants to [ ... ]
- The Dude, The Zen Master, And Jon Stewart
On Wednesday Jeff Bridges talked with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show about his book, The Dude and the Zen Master, which he wrote with Bernie Glassman. I had several reasons to be excited about this event: Bernie Glassman is a prominent Zen [ ... ]
- Chodo
Last weekend I photographed my friend Chodo, a priest at the Village Zendo, caring for a friend in hospice.
- Hungry Ghosts
Each summer during our meditation retreat, the Village Zendo holds a ceremony to feed the hungry ghosts: all those suffering and unsatisfied. Here's my teacher Enkyo Roshi leading the ceremony. Every mistake I can make in the darkroom I [ ... ]