- Who Can You Trust?
Our leaders are untrustworthy. When we hear about toilet paper hoarders or covidiots, we stop trusting each other. But there is someone we can trust.
- How Buddhism Survived The Japanese Internment
Japanese Americans founded our practice, and preserved and adapted it to life in internment camps. Today too, we must adapt our practice in a crisis.
- Joren's Shuso Hossen
March 8, 2020. Joren Sarah Drury gave her first dharma talk and engaged the community in dharma combat.
- How Not To Panic
Panic obliterates the self. We need a strong self to face fear in meditation and all of life. Dharma at the Village Zendo, January 23, 2020.
- Meditation at the Village Zendo
November 24, 2019. Meditation at a Zen temple in Manhattan.
- Yokoji Zen Mountain Center
August 2019. Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, in the San Bernardino Mountains.
- Year End Meditation Retreat
December 2019. Yoga and sutra-copying at the Village Zendo's year-end meditation retreat at the Garrison Institute.
- You Look So Zen
On a visit to some Buddhists incarcerated on a jail barge, I had to improvise how to practice Zen, just like we always have to improvise our practice.
- When The Buddha Met A Murderer
Everyone deserves a place where we can practice together, and the chance for redemption. A talk I gave at the Village Zendo on December 5, 2019.
- Five Ways to Establish a Rock-Solid Meditation Habit
Meditation can transform your life, but it only works if you sit regularly. You can establish a strong, serious practice following these five methods.