‘To Study the Self Is to Forget the Self’
The founder of Soto Zen on delusion and realization
Shohaku Okumura
Shohaku Okumura is a Soto Zen priest, a dharma successor of Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, and the founding teacher of the Sanshin Zen Community in Bloomington, Indiana. He is also an author and translator.
Education and Work
Three Zen priests on how we surrender our identities when indoctrinated in education systems and corporate bureaucracy
Dogen’s Freeing Verse
A look at the works of a Zen master who disparaged literature despite being a prolific poet
The Chimera of Human Advancement
Three Soto Zen masters discuss the mistaking of technological progress for human transformation.
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