Is Sōtō Zen Practice actually useful right now?
Zen can be a means to build capacity to care for one another while stretching ourselves and the world to transform.
Each Breath Gives Life
Combine this with our koan for the 2025 spring practice period, and you’ve set yourself up with some lovely contemplation in the coming months.
Zen and the Big Questions
One of the things I love most about our tradition is that it’s the only religion whose central and uncompromising dogma is to accept nothing as dogma.



L.A. Fires: A Letter from Angelino Sangha Members
We share this not just to ask people to give, but for any expanded conversations about ongoing histories of race and place that complicate narratives on mainstream media.
Come Close, Do Nothing
This teaching is asking us to come close to all experiences – pleasant, unpleasant, neutral – and see what happens next when we don’t turn away.

