409. The account of Bodhidharma's audience with the Chinese emperor in 520 C.E. clearly illustrates how the teaching of the Dhyana maste...

408.'At these words the monk gained insight.' And yet we are so often told that the Way is beyond words. Here we need to distinguis...

 407. At Bodhizendo, koans are presented in English. So practitioners work with koans that have been translated from Chinese to Japanese to ...

 406. MASTER GEN-UN-KEN ( DARK CLOUD )  Head and shoulders it stands  -- Mount Perumalmalai -- above the hills and mountains  that cluster a...

 405. When directed in a koan to 'put out the fire', I must ask myself what does 'put out' mean, that is, how is it used in ...

 404. Does the Master demand the impossible when he tells me 'Put out that fire a thousand miles away!' Not if I am mindful of the n...

 403. The Zen novice is directed to go straight on a narrow mountain path with ninety-nine curves. Notice that the narrow winding path is a ...