Lost Coin Zen

Here comes Shambala Publishing’s 2010 edition of Best Buddhist Writing with a selection from Doen’s Wonderland: The Zen of Alice!!!! He is in venerable company in this compilation: the Dalai Lama, Pema Chodron, Daido Roshi, Thich Nhat Hahn, amongst others. Congratulations Doen Sensei.  It will be listed on our reading list on this website shortly, [...]

Doen Sensei’s insightful and though-provoking Wonderland:  The Zen of Alice, which was published by Parallax Press in October 2009, was recently selected to appear in The Best Buddhist Writing 2010, edited by Melvin Mcleod.  This is the seventh annual compilation of the most notable Dharma writings of the year,  compiled by editors of the Shambala Sun and published by [...]

When Doen Sensei’s Wonderland:  The Zen of Alice was first published in October, it received an enthusiastic welcome–many readers who came to book signings were turned away because booksellers had not anticipated how heavy the demand would be (one store sold more than 50 copies in less than an hour).  Just four months later, the [...]

What do Alice in Wonderland, The Blue Cliff Record, San Francisco, and Kill Bill have in common?  Daniel Doen Silberberg Sensei, who has recently moved to San Francisco and will be holding the SF group’s first meeting next week. On December 16th, Doen Sensei will hold an introductory class for anyone who is interested in [...]

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 [...]