A couple of weeks before the end of the semester, I tell my students a Zen mondo, commonly referred to as a parable, about tree cutting. It doesn’t matter what class I am teaching, whether Moral ...

Ever since he was a child growing up in Duluth, Steve Hagen desired to know truth. "I wanted to know what's going on and to not be fooled. I wanted to know what was real and genuine and true," he said ...

Bodhidharma’s quote reminds us that Zen is not found in elaborate rituals or distant contemplation, it is present in the simplicity of ordinary life. Understand how being simple, mindful, and aware of ...

Wearing dirty, black clothing and heavy boots, Bill Kwong wandered into Sokoji, a Zen temple in San Francisco, and soon observed Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, its spiritual leader, slowly and carefully ...