by ADZG | Oct 27, 2020 | Articles
Being Time and Deep Time Taigen Dan Leighton From A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time edited by Stephanie Kaza © 2020 by Stephanie Kaza. Reprinted in arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boulder, CO. Joanna Macy’s work on deep...
by ADZG | Mar 14, 2020 | Articles
Bob Dylan’s Ongoing Critique of Social Injustice and Masters of War by Taigen Dan Leighton (Copyright © 2020 Taigen Dan Leighton) This is a much-expanded version of a talk presented at the World of Bob Dylan International Symposium, May 30 to June 2, 2019, at the...
by ADZG | Mar 2, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton Article for the book, Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice, edited by Steven Heine and Dale Wright (Oxford University Press, 2008) Buddhist meditation has commonly been considered an instrumental technique aimed at obtaining a...
by ADZG | Mar 1, 2019 | Articles
We Are All Refugees BY TAIGEN DAN LEIGHTON| OCTOBER 30, 2018 Zen teacher Taigen Dan Leighton attended the Tree of Life synagogue while growing up in Pittsburgh. He reflects on how all of us, near and far, are connected to the tragedy. Buddhist monks pay...
by ADZG | Feb 28, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton Published in “Shambhala Sun,” September, 1996, as “Now is the Past of the Future.” When we can fully see our own time in the dynamic fullness of time, without being blind to cause and effect, without being caught by limiting...
by ADZG | Feb 27, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton From the fall 2006 “Buddhadharma” magazine Chinese Huayan Buddhism is considered by many Buddhist scholars to be one of the highpoints of Mahayana thought, or even of world philosophy. The Huayan worldview – which emphasizes...
