The Prelude – Taking Refuge I first heard of Jukai sometime after arriving at the Zen Center of New York. I understood that it was the...

Prelude: Bodhidharma The first case in the Blue Cliff Record tells a longish story of Bodhidharma’s arrival in China and his meeting with...

If you asked me why I do koan study with my students, I would have a different answer now than I would have had a year ago. For years,...

I have been slowly reading my friend Nancy Mujo Baker’s new book, Opening to Oneness. I say slowly because it takes me two or three days...