Don’t light a lamp—there’s no oil in the house.It’s a shame to want a light.I have a way to bless poverty:Just feel your way along the...

This primary intuition of the strangeness of it all, of our single selves as unspeakably fragile and brilliant observers of a grandeur...

Layman Pang was once selling bamboo baskets. Coming down off a bridge, he stumbled and fell. When his daughter, Lingzhao, saw this she...

Wherever you are, just take the role of host, and that place will be a true place. --Linji Sometimes I feel like I was raised by wolves,...

“Stop the sound of the distant temple bell.” --Zen Koan Often it seems as if life is an ordeal, even a punishment, to be endured....

A student asked Zhaozhou, “Does a dog have Buddha nature or not? Zhaozhou answered, “No!” On a regular basis I have people asking me...

Continuously renewed immediacy, not receding memory of the Divine Touch, lies at the base of religious living. Let us explore together...

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the...

The koan: What is the heart-mind of the ancient buddha? Flowing grasses. Forests of many colors. As the sun rises, and the bird calls....

The koan: A student said to Yunmen, "The light serenely illumines the whole universe..." before he had finished Yunmen interrrupted...