Posted on August 2, 2011 by Alan Senauke
There has been a long radio silence on the blog. Not because nothing has happened. Maybe because too much has happened: ongoing, infuriating gridlock on the national budget; family medical crises; a wonderful waltz across Texas, visiting Zen centers in … Read more
Posted on May 9, 2011 by Alan Senauke
Maylie Scott — Kushin Seisho/Vast Mind Clear Shining — passed away ten years ago on May 10, 2001 at the age of 68. At Rin Shinji (Forest Heart Temple), the Zen center she had created and led for too brief … Read more
Posted on April 20, 2011 by Alan Senauke
This letter from 66 Western Buddhist teachers was posted yesterday to Dennis Genpo Merzel and to a number of Buddhist publications. It is the followup to a letter that was included in my 23 February posting “The Cloud of Knowing … Read more
Posted on February 23, 2011 by Alan Senauke
Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink.
— Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
In late January at a gathering of students at Ameland, in the north of Holland, Dennis Genpo Merzel acknowledged … Read more
Posted on January 1, 2011 by Alan Senauke
This afternoon, ushering in a new year, a new decade, and—I hope—a new turning of the dharma wheel in America, Shinge Roshi Sherry Chayat was installed as abbot of Dai Bosatsu Zendo in upstate New York. I celebrate her new … Read more
Posted on August 24, 2010 by Alan Senauke
Robert Baker Aitken — Dairyu Chotan/Great Dragon (of the) Clear Pool — died on August 5 in Honolulu at the age of 93. He was the “dean” of Western Zen teachers, a great light of dharma. Aitken Roshi was a … Read more
Posted on May 31, 2008 by Alan Senauke
by Donald Rothberg and Alan Senauke
What is socially engaged Buddhism? It is Dharma practice that flows from the understanding of the complete yet complicated interdependence of all life. It is the practice of the Bodhisattva vow to save all … Read more
Posted on May 11, 2008 by Alan Senauke
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.
— Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself”
Thirteen hundred years ago at … Read more
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Posted on January 1, 2011 by Alan Senauke
Clear View/Right View
Owl said, “Then where does Right Realization come in?”
Brown Bear said, “Right Views! Right Views!”
Owl said, “What are Right Views?”
Brown Bear said, “We’re in it together, and we don’t have much time.”
— from Zen Master Raven: … Read more