Eihei Dogen News Today

The majority of the Zen community are householders. Many best described as neither monastics nor laypeople.

Henry David Thoreau's essay Walking explores how walking, or as he called it, sauntering is an authentic spiritual practice.

What remains is a field of consciousness marked by equanimity and bliss. And this is samadhi as the word is generally used in Zen.

That we’re going to breathe anyway gives us something with minimal distraction. There are other aspects to breath and the meditative project.

Zhanglu Zongze's Guidelines for Seated Meditation is the first unambiguously presenting what we understand as seated Zen meditation.

Zen meditation evolved from classic Buddhist meditation. It comes to us blending Vipassana or “insight,” and Shamatha or “concentration.”

Kind of crazy. Did I say that? Francis and his divine madness.May we all share in that madness. A divine madness.

We must walk gently and fiercely at the same time. And Dogen charges us, "Devote your energy to a Way that points directly to suchness."

Without Keizan, Soto would never have achieved the prominence it holds within Japanese Buddhism. He preached a more popular form of Soto.

Montana author David James Duncan earned early acclaim for infusing outdoor pastimes with intense profundity. His new novel, 'Sun House,' is his magnum opus.