Chee Shimizu’s Organic Music
The Tokyo-based DJ, record store owner, and deep listening advocate on the Buddhist threads that connect his vast and varied produce
Zen
To Totally Be Under
A Zen author invokes Shakespeare and a Sufi folk story in a timeless teaching on bearing one’s suffering.
Nothing to Be Gained
The late Antaiji abbot Kosho Uchiyama Roshi on practicing without expectation.
Personal Reflections Photo Essay
The Way of the Rails
Life as a train ride across the country
You Have to Get Wet
Zen cannot be understood from the shore—you have to step in and experience it for yourself.
The Philosophy of No-Mind
Ineffable enlightenment experiences in the life and times of Ishida Baigan
Intimacy with the Present Moment
No time is wasted.
Acting in the Zone of Zen
In an excerpt from his recent book, Bret Davis expounds on the “samadhi of play.”
The Five Ranks and Dogen’s “Genjokoan”
How the most famous lines of the Shobogenzo help to elucidate a watershed teaching
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