Lost Coin Zen

Today in Salt Lake City Doen held a book signing for his just-released Wonderland:  The Zen of Alice.  We had known that Wonderlandwas swiftly rising up the Amazon best-sellers (in the Zen and philosophy categories), but were all a bit surprised when Doen’s book was sold out a mere 45 minutes after the signing started! We [...]

Early Release! Doen Sensei’s new book was scheduled for release around October 5th, but Amazon has just sent a notice to those who have pre-ordered that the book should be arriving between September 21st and 23rd.  Bonus! Wonderland is a great book; it’s the next best thing to hearing Doen speak.  If you haven’t already, contact your [...]

  No poem next week, as we will be at the Wonderland retreat (and there’s still a bit of room—please come if you can!).  The retreat made me think of jukai, and of my Dharma brothers and sisters now and to come; as always, the right poem seemed to appear as soon as I started [...]

This second part of Caryn Shudo Silberberg’s Zen art exhibit is another example of objective art.  It portrays the relative, daily life in all it’s radiance.  The relative, like the absolute is shown in it’s true ungraspable nature. – Doen “Within darkness there is light But do not look for that light” from the Identity [...]