Book :: Nothing on My Mind
Fellow Zen author says... " A revealing and intimate look at the relationship between Zen masters and their students–and between Zen and America." - Natalie Goldberg
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Podcast
Listen to a 2008 lecture at the MN Zen Center-MP3 (10mb) >

Published Articles
Zen on Ice ::
Every winter for the last several years, I’ve practiced ice Zen. This is no austerity. Like cross-country and downhill skiing, it’s a pleasure. Even in the winters of the far north, even living in a crowded metropolitan area of two million people... Read more >:: download or view PDF

A Pilgrimage to Cirque Lake ::
Distant countries may be found within a few miles, or at most a hundred miles, of every woman, man, and child in the United States. These countries are the remnants of earth that have escaped the ages of Iron and Steel... Read more > :: download or view PDF

Meditating in Wilderness ::
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi led the first sesshin I ever did. It was at the Sokoji Temple in San Francisco in 1965. For decades thereafter.... Read more > :: download or view PDF

Lineage Delusions: Eido Shimano Roshi, Dharma Transmission, and American Zen ::
In August 2010 The New York Times exposed the persistent failure of both the Zen Studies Society of New York and the larger American Zen Buddhist community to address Eido Shimano Roshi's forty year history of sexual abuse of women - and the desire, even now, to excuse or "explain" him. Equally distressing... Read more > :: download or view PDF

Lineage Delusions Revisited a Year Later: Dharma Transmission, Denial, and American Zen ::
About a year ago I offered "Lineage Delusions: Eido Shimano Roshi, Dharma Transmission, and American Zen" to Adam Tebbe and Sweepingzen.com Since then I’ve heard from women who left Zen Centers where the master... Read more > :: download or view PDF