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,…

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…