Growing up in countercultural California, ‘enlightenment’ had real glamour. But decades of practice have changed my mind ...

Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute, in collaboration with The Brick, will present the ninth annual Queer Butoh from Wednesday, June 25 - Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 8pm at The Brick ...

On March 29, 2025 Christine Kay Eckerman completed her journey through this life.

All you need to do is pick from a variety of veggies to complement the chicken and cook it to your liking. In Japan, there’s a saying: ishoku dōgen meaning food and health share the same origin.

Reading Zen Buddhism is a lot like reading about the presidential election. I’ll explain. I just finished reading Brad Warner’s 300-page “Don’t Be A Jerk” (2016), a commentary on Eihei Dōgen ...

As people increasingly use the script – the core symbol of the religion – for everyday communication, there is a risk of its losing sacred status, relegating it to a mundane writing system. Quoting ...

In the words of the 13th-century Zen Buddhist master Dōgen Zenji: To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all ...

Some scholars of Chinese Chan Buddhism maintain that the innovations associated with early (eighth-century) Chan were largely in the area of doctrine and mythology. In other words, early Chan ...

In: LaFleur, W., Ed., Dōgen Studies, Studies in East Asian Buddhism, No. 2, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1-20. has been cited by the following article: ...