So I’m sitting cross-legged in the meditation hall at the San Francisco Zen Center a couple days ago. Incense wafts through the air, bells are rung, ancient...

I just spent two weeks in a meditation center up in the mountains. Everywhere you went there were wooden boards that said:

Listen up!
Great is the...

I’d like to offer something to help you
But in the Zen school we don't have a single thing.
- Zen...

As you read this I will be just finishing up a seven day Zen retreat. That means I’ve just spent seven days straight doing pretty much nothing except sitting...