Soto Zen
In an excerpt from a talk given at San Francisco Zen Center, the late Zen master expounds on the insights of the outbreath.
Personal Reflections Working with Pain
Inviting Disability Awareness into Zen
The cofounder of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association’s Priests with Disabilities affinity group talks with Tricycle about where Zen and disability meet.
The Noble Truth of Pain
A teacher with a chronic affliction on the value of being present with physical suffering
Personal Reflections Relationships
Letting in All the Ancestors
Reckoning with her return to life outside the monastery, a Zen student finds solace in calling upon her ancestors.
Are You Really Present All the Time?
A Soto Zen priest reflects on whether awakening is possible in this lifetime
Zen Mind, Vegetal Mind
Reflections on Buddhist practice and plant science
Personal Reflections Pop Culture
To Kill a Cat
Consoling a sick friend, a Zen teacher untangles our separate self-existence.
Personal Reflections Pop Culture
‘Dragon Ball’ to Soto Zen
Struggling for a spiritual identity amid cultural and sectarian conflicts in the Middle East, a writer finds a refuge in nonattachment.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Break Through or Die Trying
Ready to lay down his life as a kamikaze pilot, Tangen Harada Roshi instead channeled his fervor into Zen.
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