Zen teacher Norman Fischer takes you through the principles and practices of the major schools of Zen. Includes specially selected articles for further reading.
How to Look at a Wall
Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller explains Bodhidharma’s famous practice of wall-gazing.
Who Was Bodhidharma?
The legendary founder of Zen in China famously taught a dictum long-regarded as the taproot of Zen, “Point directly at the human mind, see its nature, and become Buddha.”
In Accord with All Time
If you can know yourself as the unity of past, present, and future, says Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, then you see you’re right where you ought to be.
OK, Here’s the Deal
Authentic practice is always available to us, but it doesn’t come cheap. Konrad Ryushin Marchaj reminds us what’s really at stake.
What a Wall Teaches – Lin Jensen on Zen meditation’s enduring lesson
Author and Zen teacher Lin Jensen tells how meditation’s surprising first lesson still resonates with him.
Searching for Bodhidharma
Andy Ferguson journeys through China with author and translator Red Pine in search of the historical Bodhidharma and evidence of his original teachings.