Dharma Heart: A Soto Zen Practice Space

08/12/2022

Taigen Dan Leighton was ordained by our teacher, Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi of the San Francisco Zen Center.

09/27/2021

Publication day!
New book from Okumura Roshi: Ryokan Interpreted
Read an extract-- Ryokan Interpreted: finger pointing at the moon
https://dogeninstitute.wordpress.com/2021/09/26/ryokan-interpreted-finger-pointing-at-the-moon/

08/23/2021

“It’s true that we are all different squashes . . . some are bigger and some are smaller . . . some are rounder and some are longer. But even if we are different, we are all connected. We are all…

08/20/2021

We constantly face the challenge of emotional turmoil and restless mind. Karen Maezen Miller suggests you cut off your conflicting emotions at their root.

10/30/2020

I've had some technical difficulty accessing this page since June. Let's see if this will post. (Admin - Lynne B.)

06/22/2020

Happy 72nd birthday to our founder and abbot, Shohaku Okumura Roshi. May we share practice for many more years to come.

06/18/2020

“So try not to see something in particular; try not to achieve anything special. You already have everything in your own pure quality. If you understand this ultimate fact, there is no fear. There may be some difficulty, of course, but there is no fear.”

~ Shunryu Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

Edward Steichen, Delphiniums, 1940. Dye imbibition print, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York.

06/05/2020

This podcast is about an hour long and is a very good biographical introduction to Shohaku Okumura Roshi:

For this episode, host Daniel Aitken speaks with Shohaku Okumura Roshi, Japanese Soto Zen priest and revered writer and translator. Shohaku Okumura is also the founder and current abbot of the Sanshin Zen Community in Bloomington, Indiana. In this conversation, you’ll hear Okumura Roshi tell power...

05/05/2020

“Each existence depends on something else. Strictly speaking, there are just many names for one existence … We have nowhere to escape … That is why we emphasize everyday life rather than some particular state of mind. We should find the reality in each moment, and in each phenomenon.”

~ Shunryu Suzuki