Dog Zen – We Love Everyone
See What is There We continue to look and see what is coming into view. When the precepts come together we see our daily… Read More »Dog Zen – We Love Everyone
Essays by Yao Xiang Shakya
Sewing a Robe – Lay Ordination
A Single Thread, A Contemplative Order of Hsu Yun is pleased to offer to sincere practitioners the opportunity to work with one of the new… Read More »Sewing a Robe – Lay Ordination
In Memory of Qian Shen Shakya
Qian Shen Shakya (Rhonda Martinez) wife, mother, daughter, and sister; Zen teacher and mentor. Qian Shen Shakya, wife of Sad Monk –… Read More »In Memory of Qian Shen Shakya
I have for some time, viewed many of the essays sent in and finally thought possibly I would send something in that possibly may be of… Read More »
Work as Devotion; It’s All About Attention
WAIT! May I Have Your Attention? Getting off track and daydreaming or entering a scattered mind state seems like an epidemic. From screen watching… Read More »Work as Devotion; It’s All About Attention
Remembrance of Karma Yoga
Hell is empty… and all the devils are here. The Tempest, Shakespeare This fellow Shakespeare knew a thing or two. The line comes from the… Read More »Remembrance of Karma Yoga
The Arthur Sermon
Escape from Hell We named him Arthur which is a name derived from the word bear. In Medieval Latin Arthurus/Arturus, usually said to be from… Read More »The Arthur Sermon
The Five Remembrances: Birth. Aging. Sickness. Death. Karma.
The body and mind are of the nature to grow old. The body and mind are of the nature to get sick. The body… Read More »The Five Remembrances: Birth. Aging. Sickness. Death. Karma.
Take Care of Your Mind by Lao Di Zhi Shakya
Dogen’s Awarenesses – Having Few Desires, Being Content, Quietude, Diligence, Unfailing Recollection are not commandments or rules to be memorized and slavishly followed. They are qualities to be lived not just something to think about or observe in other people. These awarenesses are like seeds in our minds, when we water them with practice they can break through our ignorance, like seedlings breaking through the dirt to become plants.
Dogen’s Fifth Awareness: Unfailing Recollection
Dogen’s Fifth Awareness: Unfailing Recollection Unfailing: without error or fault; reliable or constant Recollection: action of remembering something Ah…but what are we to remember without… Read More »Dogen’s Fifth Awareness: Unfailing Recollection
Work and the 4th Awareness of Dogen
As Freud said, “Love and work..work and love.. what else is there really?” He also was overwrought about death. “Why am I looking at Freud?”… Read More »Work and the 4th Awareness of Dogen