Zazen Notes

Therefore, …take the backward step of turning the light and shining it back.

(Eihei Dogen, “Fukan zazengi” Tenpuku version, trans. Carl Bielefeldt, “Dogen’s Manuals of Zen Meditation”, pg 176)

If I feel as though I’m moving backward in space, I may suddenly have an acute sense of where my awareness is in my ...  read more

(The following is excerpted from a commentary I’ve just completed, Dogen’s “Genjo Koan”)

There’s a sentence in the “Genjo Koan” where Dogen speaks about the life that fish and birds enjoy, and he says:

…each one realizes its limitations at every moment and each one somersaults ...  read more

The comprehension of the long and short of inhalation and exhalation can enter into the sense of place, and be embodied as the posture.

I’ve just finished a work, D. L. Bartilink, “No Special Effort”, and the “Best of Ways”, ...  read more