At this all-day meditation retreat at SokukoJi Buddhist Community-Traverse City, Sokuzan talks about shikantaza--the Japanese word for...

We return to the foundational material, a very simple practice that’s not so easy to do. Shikantaza is just precisely this, as minimal as...

Shikantaza. It is a Japanese word that means “sit down, hold still and observe just precisely this.” Why shikantaza? Why not do shamatha...

There is no direct cause; everything is done with everything else. It’s called dependent origination.

Sokuzan talks about the practice of shikantaza in contrast to the traditional teaching called the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as...

Shikantaza. It is a Japanese word that means “sit down, hold still and observe just precisely this.” Why shikantaza? Why not do shamatha...

Sokuzan speaks of the relationship between emptiness and the self, inspired by the Heart Sutra.

Questions from Sangha: How do we appreciate difficulty? Whatever arises in your mind stream needs to be appreciated. It’s hard to...

The spiritual path is not about cause and effect; there is no transaction happening here. If you think so, you’ll go in circles. The...