Podcast Episodes

The Shape of Faith

This life is mysterious.

I often marvel at how there is so much more that we don’t know then that we do.

Walk into a forest or a city.

Even if I knew e…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

A Wild Love for the World

Greetings Friends,

Here we are in the heart of summer. I am writing this a week after the passing of beloved eco-dharma elder Joanna Macy. We are also…

1 year ago

Hearing the Sounds of the World

Greetings Friends,

As we move through our Summer Read of The Hidden Lamp: Stories from 25 Centuries of Awakened Women this week we focused on Case 10:…

1 year ago

One-what is that?

Greetings Friends,

I am just getting back from our Interdependence Sesshin— five-days of residential silent retreat practice in the hills of West Virg…

1 year ago

Life as Pilgrimage

Greetings Friends,

We began the Summer Read of The Hidden Lamp: 25 Centuries of Awakened Women with the first koan—The Old Woman of Wutai, a story abo…

1 year ago

Meeting Fear with Love and Understanding

Happy Summer Solstice!

I feel deep gratitude to be on this path of friendship, communion and inquiry with you. The path of dharma is a path of truth, …

1 year, 1 month ago

Love: one-hundred-thousand times

I have been reflecting on the nature of practice-awakening. In the Buddhist tradition this refers to the process (both sudden and gradual) of realizi…

1 year, 1 month ago

The Failure is Wonderful Indeed

One can, the other cannot

Both are free

A god mask, a demon mask

The failure is wonderful indeed —Mumon’s poem

If I reflect back on my life, it is possib…

1 year, 1 month ago

Getting Unstuck

I have been contemplating being stuck. You know that feeling that something else should be happening. Something more, or different, or better. The se…

1 year, 1 month ago

Meeting the Ancestors

Greetings Friends,

I am returning from a 10-day stay at my former home—Great Vow Zen Monastery. While I was there I had the opportunity to co-lead a s…

1 year, 2 months ago