by ADZG | Jul 14, 2021 | Articles
by Taigen Dan Leighton July, 2021 I am writing to honor Thomas Cleary after his passing away June 20th and his amazing legacy of translations, Buddhist and otherwise. Many of his texts are crucial to Soto Zen practice, and for all modern Buddhist...
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
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 University of Tulsa’s Institute for Bob Dylan Studies. Bob...
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: Tree of Life Massacre (from Lions Roar Magazine, Oct 30, 2018) 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,...
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...
