This morning, someone messaged me, attempting to give me a raft of shit; for my lack of belief in God and accusing me of leading people...

Don't say yes, when you mean no. Don't say no, when you mean yes. Simple Simple = Happy Happy. 一We Are the Practice Itself Calligraphy...

In Japanese sword making... "Nihon-to" there are usually four qualities that are valued in the blade, which can also be applied to Zen...

Sitting, reflecting on the question that greeted me upon waking this morning--"Is it possible that how we live our life is the personal...

Daily, we flex our stupidity as adults to the young. Refusing to get out of the way of our societal stupidity, like fashion models, we...

In Zen world, when we say, Mūshin... "no mind" or "no thinking" it's often misunderstood as a state of emptiness or absence of thought,...

Sharing some personal re-translations from the Shodōkā (Song of Awakening) by Zen Master Yokā Daishi, based on my personal experience....

Living without being mindless, we can more easily embody a presence that emanates from our genuine nature. Mindlessness often leads to...

Nisargadatta Maharaj's wisdom, "It is always the false that makes us suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the...

The daily mental feature known as the ID, which represents the survival aspect of our minds that I've dubbed "Turd," is something I have...

Miyamoto Musashi, a highly skilled Rōnin, authored a piece called "The Book of Five Rings." I often contemplate a specific part where he...

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...