Notes from Behind the Fence Hello, may this letter find you happy and at peace.  I want to start this letter off by sharing an insight I...

Mushin’s pen pal shares these insights with us: “I read the Sutras daily and meditate each day, but now the difference is that I take a...

One of my Hospice patients used my Buddha statute as a door stopper.  She did not know Buddha, nor was she aware that this was a...

Recently, one of our prison sangha members wrote me an essay on the precepts and why he wished to receive Jukai. Here is an excerpt from...

Jozan offered this creative greeting for us to share. On behalf of everyone in our extended sangha,inside and out, we wish you a happy...

Truth looks from you at you and manifests a smile of knowing the Unknown, of experiencing everywhere the no-thing-ness of everything that...

Hello, may this letter find you happy and at peace…  I want to start this letter off by sharing an insight I had the other day or so… In...

One of our prison sangha offered this illustration of a traditional poem.

My first posting to the spzg blog… Driving to zendo early on a saturday morning….. Speeding drivers, joggers, dog walkers, misty rain...