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I gave this talk at our Full Moon Zen Sunrise Sit today. A recording follows the talk.
This is the “Happy Chinaman,” story 12 in 101 Zen Stories by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Rep:
Anyone walking about Chinatowns in America will observe statues of a stout fellow carrying a linen sack. Chinese merchants call him Happy Chinaman or Laughing Buddha.
I gave this talk at our Full Moon Zen Thursday evening sit tonight. A recording follows the text.
This is Case 19 in the Blue Cliff Record:
Whenever anything was asked, Master Chu Ti would just raise one finger.
I’m going to break something of a taboo in Zen by speaking about metaphysics—the branch of philosophy that considers ...
Here is a photo following our Jukai ceremony last November during a sesshin at Providence Zen Center. I’ve included a few other photos from that retreat, including one of the altar memorial card for my mom, who had passed away just a few weeks earlier.