Cosmopolitan Zen

Fugen Roshi brings us through very practical approaches to Mondo Zen teachings and how to integrate these into our daily practice. Fugen Roshi's Dragon Heart Dharma is an open collaborative of sangha…

It's the sitting practice that becomes more and more important. The psychedelic experiences become less and less significant because you're already experiencing that expanded consciousness and altere…

Emyo Darlene Tataryn offers and in depth look at jealousy and how it provides a challenge for deepening our work as Zen practitioners. She hosts here own sangha One Wisdom Zen in Selkirk, Manitoba. h…

Daiden Dan Pecaut is a senior student of Jun Po Roshi. His sangha Siouxland Zen in Sioux City, IA is a thriving community of zen practitioners. He has published two books about his Zen experience and…

Engo Dohi Michael Jackson opens our Fall Practice Period with a discussion of non-duality.  Engo was ordained by Jun Po Roshi and serves as a senior training faculty for programs at Shining Bright Lo…

Kogen Keith Martin-Smith offers his personal reflections about Jun Po Roshi's Koan Who Are You?  Author of The Heart of Zen.  Kogen share intimately some of his experience with Jun Po Roshi. 

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Ekai Joel Kreisberg discusses the next step development of Jun Po Roshi's emotional koans.  Bringing in the wisdom of Karlan McLaren's Language of Emotions, Ekai unpacks the eleventh and twelfth koan…

If you look at it historically, it’s not proselytizing. It’s saying the Dharma has to spread. Nature has to move the seeds, either through the wind or through a bird, picking it up and dropping it so…

Emotional Koan work is for those interested in taking their practice off the cushion and into our interpersonal world in which our habitual emotional responses offer us insight and access to wisdom a…

Emotional Koan work is for those interested in taking their practice off the cushion and into our interpersonal world in which our habitual emotional responses offer us insight and access to wisdom a…

I found out how magic works, manifestation works and how changing the mind and the field around us works. And then looking back at tantric Buddhist tradition, I recognized that the initiatory practic…

Fugen Tom Pitner Roshi is a busy man. After 25 years of service to Jun Po Roshi and Hollow Bones Zen, he is leading a six day retreat in South Dakota as the head of Dragon Heart Dharma. The retreat i…

Engo Michael Jackson is one of the few priests ordained by Jun Po Roshi who has experience leading an eight day sesshin in the role of the Tanto - the spiritual leader of the sesshin,. He has mastere…

Koto Washi is a elder in the Lakota Sioux Tribe living on the Pine RIdge Reservation. He and his wife Becky operate All Nation’s Gathering Center, a non-profit retreat center on their lend in Yellow …