I’m a person who instinctively likes self-imposed routines and rules (or vows if you prefer). They seem to make life simple and sometimes in my life I’ve found a lot of peace in my life through them.
There are real dangers in this way of living...
One may seek in every one of the ten directions but will find no mode (hōben) other than the Buddha’s” (from The Lotus Sūtra )
Reading Taigen Dan Leighton’s Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra (Oxford University Press, USA...
At the moment I’m re-reading The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Eihei Dogen’s “Bendowa” with commentary by Shohaku Okumura and Kosho Uchiyama (Tuttle 1997).
In his commentary Uchiyama Roshi has some interesting and useful things to say about...
[The form of zazen] is not the means of obtaining right state of mind. To take this posture itself is our purpose or practice. It is not some means of obtaining some special state of mind. When you have this posture you have right state of mind. So...
Keep Me in Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri
by Dosho Port (2008)
Kyōshin’s Notes:
This recent book has become one of my favourite modern Zen texts. In fact if I were to recommend two 20th/21st century books on Zen I would...
