Zen Buddhism Guides

Illuminating the Mind to See One’s Nature: The Root of Taoist Inner Practice
Women in Buddhism
Kazuaki Tanahashi: A Guide for Readers
Buddhist Mindfulness: A Guide for Readers
Zen and Tea: A Guide for Readers
Jules Shuzen Harris
Zen and Chan in 2022
Some Thoughts on Veteran’s Day
The Five Remembrances – An Excerpt from Alive Until You’re Dead by Susan Moon
Chan, Zen, and Mahayana Buddhism in 2021
Zen in Japan: Up to the Meiji Restoration
Remembering Thomas Cleary, Translator of Asian Classics
The Buddhist Translations of Thomas Cleary: A Reader’s Guide
The Works of Zen in the Song Dynasty
The Samurai and Zen
Rinzai Zen
Hakuin Ekaku: A Reader’s Guide
Dogen: A Guide to His Works
Early Zen in Japan
The Works of the Chan & Zen Patriarchs
The Works of Zen in the Tang Dynasty
Korean Zen
The Great Koan Collections
Zen Buddhism: A Reader’s Guide to the Great Works
Shambhala Publications and the Global Health Crisis
Stephanie Kaza in Conversation about Green Buddhism
The Legacy of Master Sheng Yen
Buddha Nature: A Reader’s Guide
The Heart Sutra: A Reader’s Guide
We Won’t Last Forever | An Excerpt from Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home
Buddhist Poetry – A Reader Guide
Being Human | An Excerpt from Zen in the Age of Anxiety
The Approach and Intent of Zen | An Excerpt from The Rinzai Zen Way
Book Club Discussion | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Talking with Jan Chozen Bays About Mindful Eating
A Walk with Dogen into Our Time

A Walk with Dogen into Our Time

In 1954 poet Allen Ginsberg wrote a poem called “Song” that acknowledges the weight of our human circumstance and suf­fering in a particular and somewhat unusual way. I believe it may also provide a gateway to the following writings by Zen master Eihei Dogen, who addressed the nature of reality as he came to understand the world of people and things through his lifetime practice of Zen.

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Haiku: A Reader’s Guide
Samurai and Japanese Culture Reader’s Guide: The Works of Master Translator and Author William Scott Wilson
A New Perspective on an Ancient Practice: An Interview with Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Pointing to the Heart of the Buddhadharma: An Interview with Guo Gu, author of The Essence of Chan
About Kazuaki Tanahashi: An Interview with Roshi Joan Halifax
Normalcy at Its Best: An Interview with David Chadwick, Biographer of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi