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...

Shikan Hawkins February, 2014 Southern Palm Zen Group Download Talk

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...

Remember the first of the Ten Grave Precepts?  “Do not kill.” While this translation is easier for Western people to grasp, the Japanese...

Yesterday was December 7, 2013 Pearl Harbor Day a fortuitous day in American History and a day of silent meditation for those who lost...

Mushin offers another koan from this fascicle: #8 “Your treasure store will open of itself and you will use it at will.”

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

Mushin offers another koan from this great fascicle: #7 “Practice-realization is naturally undefiled.  Going forward in practice is a...