When my actions changed... by stopping my use of drugs (including alcohol) to fix my thoughts and feelings about me and my...

What is the nature of Zen training and practice? Sēretsu! (Alignment). For me, whenever there's a noticing of discord......

Freedom is a natural quality of Reality... something that is inherent within existence itself. It is not given or taken away, though...

Reflections on being here for mortals that can be particularly messy… a Love Story | Mudo Seiho Morris Sometimes people in our lives are...

Sometimes it all gets so tight, Spirit couldn't possibly blow through. Like rootbound. Here is where the problem is so bad I forget I...

Just because we may seem like strangers doesn’t actually mean that we are strangers. Just because it may seem like we're alone and in a...

What is the nature of Zen... Reality? Nothing is truly separate. No distance... No gap... No space... No time. One of the more difficult...

As an addict, whether my addiction was expressing itself through chemical dependency... codependency... process addictions such as food,...

For me… the only poverty worse than having no sense of who I was, was not living through my values as who I am. Zen training and practice...

Everyone has their version and experience of suffering that is particular to them. We can listen carefully, honoring those trials,...

What is the nature of Zen practice? Deeply Awakening to our inherent Universal Loving Presence nature; clearly... decisively......

Winter ground of thinking mind... It can appear hard and compacted. It can be difficult to penetrate. No one wants to dig here. Why? It's...

In Zen training and practice, blindness means that we don’t understand or experience the way things are in the Reality of Now. If we can...

Many people who come to Zen are oftentimes familiar with the story of Zen Master Joshu's "Does the dog have buddha nature" question. Less...

Just as ocean and wave are One Substance... Endless dimension consciousness (Universal Loving Presence) and localized consciousness...

Personally, I sit in Zazen daily. I've been doing that for 33 years. Why? Because the mind can be so busy... and I'm powerless over...

Reflecting on recovery expressions we sometimes use, where there seems to be significant misunderstandings... In my direct experience,...

Addiction is a contradiction to living. It is a state of mind which relies on convincing ourselves that drugs are necessary to maintain...

“What is the Way of Awareness that's the very heart of Zen? Let us first consider what it means to be unaware, or oblivious to what is...

About a week ago someone was asking me, "What's your goal as a father?" I replied "to be a safe, consistent, and reliable person that's...