Part one of Joan Halifax’s teaching, A New Democracy: The Koan of Servant Leadership, which she gave on January 21, 2009 at Upaya Zen Center.
The essence of Zen practice, says Eido Shimano Roshi, can be condensed into one word: Hai! (Yes!) The difficulty is learning to say Hai! without adding “But, but…”
A koan as defined by Steven Heine, a scholar of Zen Buddhism at the Florida International University.
Zen practitioners don’t “work on” koans. Koans work on them. Norman Fischer offers a poet’s take on the phrases and spaces of Zen practice, including his favorite: “Who is sick?”
A season devoted to the koans of the ancient Chinese Masters gave Natalie Goldberg a taste for the stripped-down, naked truth of things.
A simple three-word koan. Or just a one-word koan: buddhanature. So deceptively simple, yet it penetrates to the very heart of the matter.
“Explanation-style teaching is not enough,” says Zen Master Seung Sahn. A commentary on Case 41 of “The Whole World is a Single Flower”
“Is he alive or is he dead?” A teaching by the late Roshi Philip Kapleau on the koan, “Dogo Expresses Condolences.”
John Daido Loori, Roshi explains why non-thinking is right thought in this commentary on Dogen’s 300 Koan Shobogenzo, Case 129: “Yoashan’s Non-Thinking”
John Tarrant explains how the seemingly absurd little stories called koans cut through conceptual mind.
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