Morning Readings

Each weekday morning we start our service with a reading. You'll find the archive here.

Due to copyright restrictions, we do not publish the actual text to the readings. We do however link to a Google search that should help you find it quickly.

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Dogen

September 2026

Mon

14

Sep

zazen instructions

December 2024

Mon

09

Dec

Vast Mind

October 2023

Fri

27

Oct

Seeing Flowers in Spring

Fri

06

Oct

Dogen poem

December 2021

Fri

17

Dec

Joyful, motherly, and vast heart (Instructions for the Tenzo)

Thu

16

Dec

When I was staying at Tiantong-jingde-si (tenzo drying mushrooms)

Wed

15

Dec

Instructions to the Tenzo (on present and past, wild horse and monkey)

August 2021

Fri

13

Aug

To study the Buddha Way is to study the self

April 2021

Tue

13

Apr

In the third month of spring (enlightenment trees)

March 2021

Tue

16

Mar

Instructions to the Tenzo (on practice in activity)

October 2020

Wed

07

Oct

When the dharma does not fill your whole body and mind

September 2020

Mon

28

Sep

Actualizing the Fundamental Point (Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water)

Thu

03

Sep

Zazen (Waka)

June 2020

Tue

23

Jun

Genjo Koan (to study the way… the boat and the shore)

May 2020

Tue

12

May

Mountains and Waters Sutra

April 2020

Tue

07

Apr

Dogen’s Fuller Instructions on Zazen