Teachings
COVID-19 Update: Newsletter March, 2020
“When times of great difficulty visit us, how shall we greet them?” View our coronavirus update newsletter from March, 2020.
What is This?
Jesse Cardin, Roshi on receiving dharma transmission and the magic of letting the world come to you.
ZenByte – Which is My True Life?
What is, what was, what could be. SMASH!
ZenByte – Beyond Artificial Intelligence
A human can be a robot but a robot can’t be a human. Which is more fun?
ZenByte – To Study the Self
A brief recorded talk by Jesse Cardin, Sensei, on Dogen’s “The Buddha way is to study the self.”
Plot twist
Life is full of twists and turns and Buddhism has always been concerned with the very real question of how to navigate them.
In Flesh & Blood
The human is fundamentally a joyous animal, reveling in the rush and release of activity and rest, consumption and elimination, equipped from the start with a magnificent capacity for receiving the world’s bounty.
stuck.
Life is fundamentally fraught. To open one’s mouth is to invite argument and to make any decision is to risk regret. To take a step in any direction is to put our life – or at least our ego – in danger.