Tesshin Roshi thought it would be “fun” to go back to a text we looked at a while ago during the anniversary of Keizan’s passing. There is a lot happening around Keizan, and Keizan is an important ancestor of ours, a student of Dōgen. Around two years ago was in a way the Keizan year,…

Tesshin Roshi began by mentioning that according to the Jewish calendar, we are in a special month of successive holidays, with the previous Saturday having been Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the new year. Following that is a ten-day period culminating on Sunday night called Yom Kippur, often translated as the Day of Atonement. These…

Tesshin began this week by reminding us of the tea and snacks provided to us as a gift from Houn Jeff and expressing continued gratitude. Tesshin then shared the wonderful news that Soshin successfully entered the nunnery in Nagoya this past week. The temple had informed him before her arrival that they were planning a…