by ADZG | Oct 25, 2023 | Articles
Bob Dylan’s Hymns: What is Really Sacred[1] by Taigen Dan Leighton Copyright © 2023 Taigen Dan Leighton Introduction: What is Truly Sacred? One of Bob Dylan’s seminal songs is “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding” from “Bringing It All Back Home” in 1965. Dylan...
by ADZG | Mar 20, 2023 | Articles
I want to strongly recommend a new Zen book. The book is Turning Words: Transformative Encounters with Buddhist Teachers (Shambhala) by Hozan Alan Senauke, currently Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. This book is brilliant, a masterpiece. It features illuminating...
by ADZG | Nov 15, 2022 | Articles
from Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry, by Taigen Dan Leighton (Wisdom Publications, 2011) An Off-Beat Conference and a Song Gathering the Mind Sometimes in Zen we sit for a day, or three, five, or seven days, in what is called...
by ADZG | Oct 10, 2022 | Articles
A Meditation on Peace and War Taigen Leighton, September 2022 Shakyamuni the Awakened One sat down under a tree At the border of his homeland As the invading army approached. The two warring armies Hostile and fierce Arrived at the riverside And witnessed Buddha...
by ADZG | Jun 27, 2022 | Articles
The following is from my post to the Soto Zen Buddhist Association teacher’s list. It responds in part to comments by my Dharma sister, Konjin Gaelyn Godwin Roshi of the Houston Zen Center. Excerpts from Gaelyn’s post: The politics behind the recent...
by ADZG | Mar 17, 2022 | Articles
Dōgen’s Vision of the Environment and his Practice of Devotion and Faith by Taigen Dan Leighton from The Theory and Practice of Zen Buddhism: A Festscrift for Steven Heine, edited by Charles Prebish and On-cho Ng (Springer, 2022). INTRODUCTION In many of his writings,...
