In Zen, faith grows through practice experience, even as faith sustains practice. They co-evolve continuously, sustaining each other. This is Hakuin’s “oneness of cause and effect,” out of which awakening can emerge. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

Sudama, an ordained priest at the Center,  gave this account of coming to the Dharma and coming to the Center. For more of her story, see these two Zen Bow articles: https://www.rzc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Just-Money-Luna-Ngo.pdf https://www.rzc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Commitment-the-Gift-of-Pain-Sudama-Ngo.pdf Coming to the Path Talk by Sudama Ngo.

Based on a New York Times article “Which is Better: Rewards or Punishments? Neither” by Heather Turgeon. It describes a middle way of engaging with children, essentially based on responding out of our true nature and intuition without getting stuck in preconceptions. Link to video featuring Anna Breytenbach, “animal communicator.” Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.

Recently we’ve seen conspiracy theories gaining wider currency in our country, which is just the latest surge in a long history of such theories. What spawns such ideas, and why do so many people believe in even the most far-fetched ones? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

An Easter Sunday look at apophatic theology, the Christian view of God as essentially unknowable or ineffable, which also insists that human language is inadequate to describe God. This insight overlaps with Zen and the famous words of its Founder: “I don’t know.” Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

April 2019 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

April 2019 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.