Letters from the desk.
Weekly digests, field notes, and occasional essays.
- April 17, 2026
Nothing lacking
SFZC opens a month-long practice period titled after Dogen's most direct teaching — the same week Green Gulch plants trees and a Huayan scholar visits City Center.
- April 17, 2026
The first real question
Three retreats in the next three weeks ask the same question differently — what happens when you stop practicing alone?
- April 14, 2026
Moment to moment
A zazenkai series in New Mexico is recovering the stories of women who shaped modern Zen — this Saturday turns to a Swiss musician who wrote poems after sitting.
- April 7, 2026
What gets passed down
The Denkoroku maps fifty-two transmissions of the light from teacher to student — this month, three retreats carry that impulse forward in different forms.
- March 31, 2026
What words are for
Three retreats this spring circle the old question — what happens when you bring language into silence, or silence into language?
- March 21, 2026
The space between seasons
The equinox passed yesterday. Across the country, zendos are opening their spring practice periods — three sesshins this week sit right on the threshold.