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• Change, and Thus Hope
• CoronaCast: October 19
• Email: October 16
• October 2020 Sesshin, Day 5: Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary)
• October 2020 Sesshin, Day 4: Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary)
• October 2020 Sesshin, Day 3: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary). Text from Zen Master Lanxi Daolong (Jap.: Daikaku)
• October 2020 Sesshin, Day 2: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary). Text from Zen Master Lanxi Daolong (Jap.: Daikaku)
• October 2020 Sesshin, Day 1: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary). Text from Zen Master Lanxi Daolong (Jap.: Daikaku)
• Email: October 2
• Email: September 30
• Anti-Racist Term Intensive Possibilities
• Email: September 25
• Even If the World Is Ending, So What?
• Email: September 19
• September 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 2: Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity by Soko Morinaga
• September 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 1: Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity by Soko Morinaga
• Email: September 10
• CoronaCast: September 9
• Email: September 4
• The Happiness Trap
• Email: August 27
• CoronaCast: August 27
• Sangha Get-together
• Thrivers’ Guilt
• Email: August 20
• CoronaCast: August 19
• Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau, October 1976 Sesshin, Day 4: Mumonkan #3 “Gutei’s Finger”
• Email: August 13
• CoronaCast: August 12
• Considering White Privilege
• Email: August 6
• CoronaCast: August 5
• The Zen Teaching of Hui Hai
• Email: July 25
• Email: July 23
• CoronaCast: July 23
• RZC News Stream
• East-West Cultural Contrasts and the Pandemic
• Giving to the Center
• Introduction to Zen: Meditation Workshop
• How to Fight Racial Injustice Without Hating
• Email: July 16
• Black Lives Matter Book Discussion
• CoronaCast: July 15
• Online Extended Sitting
• Working with Impatience
• Finding Your Seat
• Practice in the Pandemic
• Email: July 9
• Introduction to Zen: Online Meditation Workshop
• Email: July 3
• The Life and Teaching of Peace Pilgrim
• Email: June 25
• CoronaCast: June 25
• Is There More to All This Than Meets the Eye?
• Email: June 19
• CoronaCast: June 18
• June 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 4: Blue Cliff Record #29, “It Goes Along with Everything Else”
• June 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 3: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary)
• June 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 2: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary)
• June 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 1: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary)
• Email: June 5
• CoronaCast: June 4
• 100,000 Deaths and Our Cities in Flames
• Email: May 28
• CoronaCast: May 28
• Email: May 26
• Pandemics: A High-Altitude View
• Email: May 22
• Email: May 16
• Email: May 14
• CoronaCast: May 13
• The Zero Point Turned Inside-Out
• Email: May 3
• Giving Up to Live Fully
• Following a Schedule During Quarantine
• Email: April 30
• CoronaCast: April 30
• Outrage and the Pandemic
• CoronaCast: April 23
• Email: April 23
• Online Zazen
• Affluenza
• CoronaCast: April 15
• Email: April 15
• Blue Cliff Record #87: “Medicine and Sickness Correspond to Each Other”
• Email: April 10
• Email: April 9
• CoronaCast from Roshi: April 9
• Social Distancing: Willingness, Acceptance, and COVID-19
• Safe Zone training
• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, by Erving Goffman
• The Movie: Birth
• Mumonkan, Case 48: “Kempo’s One Road”
• Interconnection and the Alchemy of Performance
• The Journey Towards Rıght Action
• Q&A: “How can I regain my energy for Zen practice?”
• Dokusan
• Music Notes
• The Neuroscience of Mindfulness
• Smartphone Judo
• Our House Is On Fire: Zen Bow, Spring 2020
• Blue Cliff Record #3: “Baso’s Sun-faced Buddha, Moon-faced Buddha,” Sensei Amala Wrightson
• Email: April 3
• Covid Solitude, Dislocation, and Dis-illusionment
• Email: March 27
• CoronaCast from Roshi: March 26
• Email: March 25
• Impermanence and the Virus
• Email: March 21
• Email: March 19
• Email: March 17
• Human Contradictions Exposed by the Pandemic
• Email: March 14
• Email: March 12
• Email: March 11
• Preparing Ourselves for the Coronovirus for the Sake of Others
• Email: March 4
• February 2020 Sesshin, Day 4, John Pulleyn: Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter)
• February 2020 Sesshin, Day 3, John Pulleyn: Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter)
• February 2020 Sesshin, Day 2, John Pulleyn: Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter)
• February 2020 Sesshin, Day 1, John Pulleyn: Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter)
• Solitude Misused: So Near, Yet So Far Away
• Email: February 20
• A Small Syllable of Great Power
• Cancer Koans: A Frozen Tree Blossoms
• Coming to the Path Talk by Dené Redding
• Email: February 5
• Email: January 29
• The Dharma of Driving
• Email: January 21
• Twenty-eight Benefits of Meditation
• Email: January 14
• January 2020 Sesshin, Day 7: Blue Cliff Record #23, “Hofuku Points to Myohocho”
• January 2020 Sesshin, Day 6: The Undying Lamp of Zen: The Testament of Zen Master Torei (trans. by T. Cleary)
• January 2020 Sesshin, Day 5: The Undying Lamp of Zen: The Testament of Zen Master Torei (trans. by T. Cleary)
• January 2020 Sesshin, Day 4: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary)
• January 2020 Sesshin, Day 3: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary)
• January 2020 Sesshin, Day 2: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary)
• January 2020 Sesshin, Day 1: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary)
• Email: January 4
• Email: January 2
• Email: December 30
• Nuturing Self-control Through the Social Emotions
• Email: December 27
• Email: December 19
• Summer 2019
• Out With the Old, In With–What?
• December 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (trans. by Thomas Wright, commentary by Uchiyama Roshi)
• December 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (trans. by Thomas Wright, commentary by Uchiyama Roshi)
• Email: December 5
• Jukai and the Internet
• Email: November 29
• Email: November 22
• Email: November 21
• The Buddhist Precepts in the Context of Environmentalism
• Kyosei’s Sound of Raindrops
• The Practice of Science, the Practice of Zen
• November 2019 Sesshin, Day 7: Shoyoroku #32, “Yangshan’s ‘Mind and Environment’”
• November 2019 Sesshin, Day 6: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary)
• November 2019 Sesshin, Day 5: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary)
• November 2019 Sesshin, Day 4: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary)
• November 2019 Sesshin, Day 3: Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen (trans. by Robert Buswell)
• November 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen (trans. by Robert Buswell)
• November 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen (trans. by Robert Buswell)
• Email: October 31
• Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn: “Get Over Yourself”
• Email: October 23
• Philip Kapleau: Planting Seeds While Trailing Vines
• Email: October 10
• October 2019 Sesshin, Day 7, Amala-sensei: Ziyong’s Ship of Compassion
• October 2019 Sesshin, Day 6, Amala-sensei: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat
• Email: October 4
• October 2019 Sesshin, Day 5, Amala-sensei: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat
• Email: October 3
• October 2019 Sesshin, Day 4, Amala-sensei: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat
• October 2019 Sesshin, Day 3, Amala-sensei: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat
• October 2019 Sesshin, Day 2, Amala-sensei: Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, by Lenore Friedman
• October 2019 Sesshin, Day 1, Amala-sensei: Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, by Lenore Friedman
• Email: September 26
• Email: September 25
• Zazen As Pure Science Experiment
• Email: September 20
• What If Global Warming Is Irreversible?
• Email: September 13
• Email: September 10
• September 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students, by Robert Aitken
• Email: September 4
• Email: August 20
• Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau, November 1976 Sesshin, Day 5: Mumonkan #8 “Keichu’s Cart”
• Email: August 15
• Email: August 13
• Global Buddhism: A Display of Emptiness
• Email: August 9
• Email: August 7
• July 2019 Sesshin, Day 7: Blue Cliff Record #80, “Joshu’s “A Newborn Baby””
• July 2019 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #10, “Sozan and Poor Seizei”
• Temple Night & Jukai
• July 2019 Sesshin, Day 4: Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary)
• July 2019 Sesshin, Day 3: Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary)
• July 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary)
• July 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Chanting as Zen Practice
• Zendo Air Conditioning and Won Buddhism
• Family Program
• Email: July 19
• Sangha Picnic
• Email: July 12
• Email: July 6
• Sitting with Care
• Email: July 5
• Sei and Her Soul Separate
• Consciousness & Koans
• Email: June 28
• Email: June 25
• The Blindness of Other-ist Views
• Email: June 20
• June 2019 Sesshin, Day 7: Blue Cliff Record #44, “Kasan’s ‘Beating the Drum’”
• June 2019 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #7, “Joshu’s ‘Wash Your Bowl’”
• June 2019 Sesshin, Day 5: Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman)
• June 2019 Sesshin, Day 4: Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman)
• June 2019 Sesshin, Day 3: Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman)
• June 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman)
• Email: June 8
• Practice and Faith Nourishing Each Other
• Email: May 30
• Coming to the Path Talk by Sudama Ngo
• Email: May 23
• Email: May 16
• Dharma talk by Eryl Kubicka, “Responding and Resilience in Parenting”
• Email: May 7
• 2019 Chapin Mill Work Retreat
• Email: April 30
• Conspiracy Theories: Why Believe Them?
• Where Christ and Bodhidharma Meet
• Buddha Holds Up a Flower
• Working with Habits
• Email: April 19
• Email: April 12
• Email: April 9
• April 2019 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #2, “Hyakujo’s Fox” Part 2
• April 2019 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #2, “Hyakujo’s Fox” Part 1
• April 2019 Sesshin, Day 5: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary)
• April 2019 Sesshin, Day 4: Bankei Zen (trans. by Peter Haskel)
• April 2019 Sesshin, Day 3: Bankei Zen (trans. by Peter Haskel)
• April 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: Bankei Zen (trans. by Peter Haskel)
• April 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Bankei Zen (trans. by Peter Haskel)
• Email: March 28
• Email: March 20
• Friendship: A Remedy for Cultural Disruption and Loneliness
• Email: March 14
• The Value of Getting Lost
• Email: March 8
• March 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: Everyday Zen, by Charlotte Joko Beck
• March 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Everyday Zen, by Charlotte Joko Beck
• Buddha’s Birthday Weekend
• Email: March 1
• Email: February 19
• Dharma Talk by Tom Kowal, “Dharma and Depression – Part 2”
• Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn: “Why Buddhism Is True”
• Email: February 7
• Email: January 30
• Secular Creeds as Substitutes for Religion
• Nansen Kills the Cat
• Distant Bodhisattvas
• Painting Attention – Sit. See. Paint. Repeat.
• Email: January 23
• Not-Minestrone Soup
• Hot Rice Cereal
• Email: January 18
• Email: January 15
• January 2019 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #6, “The Buddha Holds Up a Flower”
• January 2019 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #5, “Kyogen’s Man Up a Tree”
• January 2019 Sesshin, Day 5: Blue Cliff Record #61, “Fuketsu’s One Particle of Dust”
• January 2019 Sesshin, Day 4: Discourse of Master Hsu Yun from The Practice of Zen (trans. C.C.Chang)
• January 2019 Sesshin, Day 3: Zen Master Hakuin – Selected Writings ( trans. Yampolski)
• January 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. Arthur Braverman)
• January 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Short Autobiographies of Two Chinese Zen Masters
• Email: December 27
• Email: December 19
• The Zen Poetry of Ryokan
• Email: December 15
• Email: December 13
• December 2018 Sesshin, Day 4: Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen, by John Crook
• December 2018 Sesshin, Day 3: Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen, by John Crook
• December 2018 Sesshin, Day 1: Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings, by Ajahn Chah
• Mumonkan #32, “A Non-Buddhist Questions the Buddha”
• Email: November 28
• Buddha’s Enlightenment Ceremony
• Jukai, Buddhist (Non-)Identity, and the Power of Vows
• Email: November 23
• Email: November 17
• Roasted Potatoes
• Sautéed Green Beans
• Ceremony of Gratitude
• Email: November 14
• November 2018 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #48, “Kempo’s One Road”
• November 2018 Sesshin, Day 6: Shoyoroku #20, “Dizang’s ‘Most Intimate’”
• November 2018 Sesshin, Day 5: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary)
• November 2018 Sesshin, Day 4: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary)
• November 2018 Sesshin, Day 3: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary)
• November 2018 Sesshin, Day 2: Zen Dawn: Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang (trans. J.C. Cleary)
• November 2018 Sesshin, Day 1: Zen Dawn: Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang (trans. J.C. Cleary)
• Email: November 3
• Zen and The Art of Snobbery
• I Resolve Not to Kill: A Call to Arms
• Turning Over the Teakettle
• Miaozong’s Dharma Encounter, Amala-sensei
• Email: October 26
• Caring, Engaging, Voting
• Email: October 12
• Tofu Stroganoff
• Pasta with Miso, Lemon, Tahini Sauce
• Muesli
• Email: October 9
• October 2018 Sesshin, Day 7, Amala-sensei: Satsujo Overcomes Hakuin
• October 2018 Sesshin, Day 6, Amala-sensei: Chiyono’s No Water No Moon
• October 2018 Sesshin, Day 5, Amala-sensei: Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism (by Master Sheng Yen & Others)
• October 2018 Sesshin, Day 4, Amala-sensei: Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism (by Master Sheng Yen & Others)
• October 2018 Sesshin, Day 3, Amala-sensei: Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism (by Master Sheng Yen & Others)
• October 2018 Sesshin, Day 2, Amala-sensei: Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism (by Master Sheng Yen & Others)
• October 2018 Sesshin, Day 1, Amala-sensei: Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism (by Master Sheng Yen & Others)
• Email: September 29
• Zen Bow No. 3, 2018, Letters to the Editor
• Email: September 26
• Blue Cliff Record #55, “Dogo’s ‘I Won’t Say’”
• Email: September 22
• Email: September 19
• Email: September 12
• Integrating Life and Practice: Women’s Voices – Eryl Kubicka
• Email: August 21
• Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau, June 1975 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #36 “Goso’s ‘No Words or Silence’”
• Email: August 17
• Email: August 14
• Our Marvelous Microbiome: A Web of Mutual Causation
• Email: August 7
• Work Retreat 2018
• July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 7: Shoyoroku #13, “Linji’s ‘Blind Donkey’”
• July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 6: Blue Cliff Record #18, “The National Teacher’s Seamless Monument”
• July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 5: Zen Essence (trans. T. Cleary)
• July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 4: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary)
• July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 3: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary)
• July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 2: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary)
• July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 1: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary)
• Email: July 24
• The Latest Scandal in American Buddhism
• RZC Recipes Online
• The Latest from Klava House
• Tofu, Leeks, and Peas
• Basil-Tamari Dressing
• Soy Cheese
• Sesame-Ginger Tempeh
• Sesame Salt
• Rochester Zen Center Granola
• Coconut-Squash Soup
• Garlic Butter Bread
• Bread Pudding
• Easy Baked Eggs
• Email: July 12
• Email: July 6
• Harada Tangen Roshi
• Our Memories of Tangen Roshi
• Awaken to the True Self
• Sangha Dinner
• September Two-Day Sesshin
• Thanksgiving Dinner at the Center
• Email: June 26
• Zen Bow No. 2, 2018, Letters to the Editor
• Email: June 21
• June 2018 Sesshin, Day 7: Blue Cliff Record #67, “The Great Bodhisattva Fu Lectures on the Diamond Sutra”
• June 2018 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #19, “Ordinary Mind is the Way”
• June 2018 Sesshin, Day 5: Zen Essence (trans. T. Cleary)
• June 2018 Sesshin, Day 4: Zen Essence (trans. T. Cleary)
• June 2018 Sesshin, Day 3: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary)
• June 2018 Sesshin, Day 2: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary)
• June 2018 Sesshin, Day 1: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary)
• Buddha’s Birthday 2018
• Teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Roshi: Reclaiming Our Resilient Spirit
• Email: June 1
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• Email: May 16,2018
• Email: May 12, 2018
• Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn: “Working with Habits”
• Email: May 11, 2018
• Fear and Avoidance As the Engines of Risk-Taking Behavior
• Email: May 3, 2018
• New Year’s Eve
• Winter Term Intensive
• Message from Roshi
• The Tyranny of Convenience, the Allure of What’s Easiest
• Email: April 27, 2018
• Dharma Talk by Tom Kowal, “Dharma and Depression”
• Email: April 20, 2018
• April 2018 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #46, “Step Forward From the Top of a Hundred-Foot Pole”
• April 2018 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #28, “Ryutan Blows Out a Candle”
• April 2018 Sesshin, Day 5: The Practice of Zen (trans. C.C. Chang)
• Email: March 30, 2018
• Zhaozhou’s “A Newborn Baby”
• Transcending, Transgending
• One Tow In the Water
• Email: March 22, 2018
• Email: March 18, 2018
• Email: March 14, 2018
• Inperson Sittings and Events Suspended
• Sittings and Events Are Suspended
• Email: March 9, 2018
• 2017 Quarterly Mailings
• 2017 Work Retreat
• Buddha’s Birthday 2017
• 50th Anniversary Weekend
• Buddha’s Birthday 2016
• Work Retreat 2016
• Buddha’s Birthday 2015
• Chapin Mill Landscapes
• Inside the Retreat Center
• Chapin Mill Completion Ceremony
• Work Retreat 2014
• SanghaPalooza 2013
• Roshi Kapleau in Japan
• Work Retreat 2013
• Buddha’s Birthday 2013
• Buddha’s Birthday 2014
• Learning to Pay Attention
• The Sweet Dew of Perfection Saturates All
• Layman Pang’s Beautiful Snowflakes