The Dreamer’s Dream

When you are identified with the dream, you don’t know you are dreaming. If you are not identified with the dream, you know you are dreaming.

Self-Cherishing

Our attachments… Zen is a direct experience, it is not some ideology or escape from reality.

The Perfection Of Patience

To practice patience is the ability to endure, and to have forbearance. It is integral to living; without it, we cannot accomplish anything.

stormy night

Brightness And Darkness

The Dharma talk from Sunday 10/2/2022, 4 days after Hurricane Ian. It included a reading from A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace: The Zen Teaching of Huangbo. Unobstructed Wisdom [A monk] asked, “Did the Buddha bring an end to ignorance or not?” The master replied, “Ignorance is the very site where all buddhas attain the Way.” Master Subul, Seon. A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace: The Zen Teaching of Huangbo with a Modern Commentary