This week, Tesshin Roshi shared mochi from the oldest Japanese confectionery in the United States, and offered a report on his recent trip to Los Angeles. He had just returned from the annual gathering of the American Zen Teachers Association, held at Zenshuji Soto Mission—the first Soto Zen temple established in North America. Roshi noted…

In his talk this week, Tesshin Roshi noted that we are looking at the Denkōroku (Record of Transmission of Light) by Keizan, focusing in this series on the six Chinese patriarchs. Turning today to the third patriarch, Roshi pointed out a similarity among the first three that is reminiscent of our practice, insofar as their…

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,…