Navigating Down River
Chris Yudo Abraham, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 8/20/26 - When we take a chance, we always risk failure. But if we don’t take a chance, we miss the...
Water As Remembrance
Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 7/24/26 - Senior lay student Yosha explores Dogen’s Mountains & Rivers Sutra to bring out the qualities of water as the...
Close, Inseparable, No Gap
Suzanne Taikyo Gilman, Senior Monastic -ZMM - 7/23/26 - As human beings, we rely on language—words and concepts—to make sense of nearly everything we do. But how do we come...
Ground, Path, and Fruit
Linda Shinji Hoffman, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 5/27/26 - The spiritual journey on the Buddhist path is where we encounter the “original ground” — our primordial Buddha Nature....
Graciously Share Yourself
Sarah Taisho Sands, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 4/23/26 - We often come into practice with deep questions about our lives and a strong desire to find answers. Although...
Eight Qualities of a Great Person
Katie Yosha Scott-Childress, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 12/29/25 - From Dogen’s final teachings, a commentary on passages of the Parinirvana Sutra given before the Buddha died is offered...
A Coin Before It’s Stamped
Prabu Gikon Vasan, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 8/21/25 - Understanding the many negations in the Heart Sutra, and the concept of “emptiness,” requires effort and faith. It asks...
Letting Go of Being Right
Suzanne Taikyo Gilman, Senior Monastic - ZCNYC - 7/27/25 - Letting go of being right can be one of the hardest things to do. What happens if, instead of defending...
Pure Perception
Michelle Seigei Spark, Lay Senior MRO Student - ZMM - 7/20/25 - Our six senses can be an entry to the whole entire mind of practice and provide us direct...
Right Speech
Joel Sansho Benton, Senior Lay Student - ZMM - 6/26/25 - How do we practice Right Speech, and how do we practice mindfulness in our everyday language? We use language...
