Let Go of Labels
Practice with a famous koan to reconnect with a sense of wonder and return to your original nature before the subject-object split.
Koans
What Am I?
Practice with the koan “What is the most precious thing in the world?”
Koan Practice: What Was I Before My Parents Gave Birth to Me?
Revisit different stages in your life and how you once perceived the world to regain a sense of wonder and connection.
Waking Up Is Letting the Mask Fall
What if who we are is impossible to pin down?
TeachingsMagazine | Visiting Teacher
Visting Teacher: Haemin Sunim
Q&A with Haemin Sunim, the founder of the School for Broken Hearts in Seoul, a nonprofit that provides group counseling and meditation
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
Everyone Wants to Save the World, but No One Wants to Help Mom Do the Dishes
The opportunity to practice compassion is right in front of you.
Are You Really Present All the Time?
A Soto Zen priest reflects on whether awakening is possible in this lifetime
To Kill a Cat
Consoling a sick friend, a Zen teacher untangles our separate self-existence.
A Koan for These Times
How koans can teach us to embrace uncertainty in the face of the climate crisis
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