Dear Friends and Supporters, I am currently seeking donations for three primary initiatives on behalf of Mentor Garden Zendo. The first...

Whatever we direct our attention to is what's not only closest but also most intimate to us...for better or worse. Attention is a true...

I frequently pose this question to those who practice with me: "When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't accurate or was...

Zazen is the practice of fostering a one-pointed, undivided, and stabilized presence and attention. It promotes alertness and readiness...

Last Saturday, after morning zazen at Choboji on Beacon Hill, I trekked over to Clear Mountain Monastery to join some friends in...

Questioner: Why can't I control or penetrate my thoughts? Seiho: First, they're not your thoughts. If they were, you could control them....

Buddhism distinguishes itself from Western religions through its unique approach to human nature. While Abrahamic religions, namely...

In living our life, to what we sense as the best of our current ability, whether we ask for it or not, we constantly find ourselves...

In a book, called "Points of Departure, Zen Buddhism with a Rinzai View," my first teacher wrote an essay entitled, "Eliminate the...

Yesterday, I found myself engaged in an insightful dialogue with a protégé of mine. As mentors often do, we were navigating the twists...

In the profound words of the late Sylvia Plath, "If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier." From a surface glance, these words may hint at...

What we believe, we tend to live. As my mentors taught me in Twelve Step Recovery-Land, the word "belief" refers to an idea or attitude...

If you want to understand what I truly believe, pay 20% attention to what I say, and 80% to what I'm actually doing in my life. That will...

In my experience, if we're not willing to get vulnerable with people that we're in a relationship with, then we're probably not seriously...

The core of Buddhist practice guides us toward noticing authentic reality, using the ego's great doubt and deep insecurity to fire an...

Throughout thousands of years of evolution and development, it's our communal teamwork across all facets of society that has enabled us...

Though Father's Day is a day our society invites us to celebrate the nature of fatherhood. For me it's a day of mourning. It's a day of...

If an absence of thinking - not allowing attention and awareness to be distracted by thoughts that come and go on their own - results in...

An old friend often said, "It's heartbreaking when addiction masquerades as recovery. When I'm coasting in recovery, not truly connected,...

What is the essence of Zen? Not performing. Being 100% natural. Zen, at its core, is a practice that invites us to be, not perform. It is...