Shaman Tiger Zen Roshi

 I transmit the Zen Dharma of Absolute Tathata (Suchness). Striking away all words & concepts, penetrating right to the Heart of Emptine...

  "The Way has its reality & its signs but is without action or form. You can hand it down but not receive it; get it, but never se...

The Master said to me: All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which i...

Amid deep mountains & white clouds I rest in quietness, peace & ecstasy -- remote from fame, obscure to the world I eat bitter herbs...

The Form of the Formless has been compared to the pure silk lining of a kimono, an echo in a valley, a lamp gliding along a river at night, ...

IF you instantly cut off the emotional clinging of the self, all cravings and attachments, the greed and grasping, the notions of degraded a...

An Ancient said, "Day and night all of you people release a great light from the gates of your six senses; it shines through mountains,...

All Buddhas and all sentient beings are no different from the One Mind. In this One Mind there is neither arising nor ceasing, no name or fo...

Do you not know that we do not come from anywhere even as we are born, and do not go anywhere even as we die? Born wherever you are, you pas...

  Q: Roshi, can the highest blazing truth of Zen be realized in everyday things and activities, like peeling an onion? Or is it reserved for...

This spiritually enlightening nature is without beginning, as ancient as the Void, subject neither to birth nor to destruction, neither exis...

Because they are like last night's dream, you must know that samsara and nirvana never arise and never disappear, never come and never g...

There is no language to describe Zen. One must achieve his understanding through an enlightenment experience. Since seventeen years old I h...

  Zen is just settling the great matter once & for all & ever. You settle it, you wash your hands of it, you cut off the tongues of ...

If you could subtract from yourself all your ideas, views and opinions, then go on to wipe out thinking itself, you would definitely attain ...

The Shibumi Zen Temple is pure peace and bliss, magnified a million times A zone of calm, alert awareness so vast and deep it shatters words...

(Here is about half of the section of “Forceful Physical (Body and Mind) Techniques” from The Little Manual of Shibumi Ki Do. ) Shedding Min...

The one who possesses or manifests a “field of power” is also said to be “radiant.” Who among us would not want to be both powerful & da...

Hey! There's a clownish sort of monk I know who is always darting his eyes around the Hall, secretly worrying that some other monk in th...

  “ The nature of mind is the original Buddha without birth or cessation, like the sky! When you understand that, all apparent phenomena are...

One day, while talking with his monks, San-shêng said, “When a student comes, I go out to meet him with no purpose of helping him.” His brot...

Q: Hey, Roshi, I bought your book but I am having trouble with some of the breathing instructions. I am a beginner. Can you give me some sim...

Chatrul Rinpoche, seated on the skin of a tiger who would probably prefer to be somewhere else. 1. Look intently for a little while not at o...

Q: Hey Roshi, what should I do to attain awakening? A: I suggest that you: discover by direct investigation your inherent awake & alert ...

Sometimes it seems to me that what we call "Zen" is like a headstrong child, a bit rough & severe with the littler children, s...

Q: Roshi, can Zen help me see my true self? Can it liberate me? A. No! How can you liberate what was never unfree? From Bodhidharma onward, ...

Imagine being a child at the beach: You pick up some water from the sea in your cupped palms & you cry out, "This is my water!...

In the yogic state of calm stillness mind & body naturally unify (they were never "two"), intellectual problems disappear, ...

Zen Tea Master Kaji Aso, holding a bowl of tea. It has been noted that in ancient Japan there occurred a splendid fusion of Zen's spirit...

Thus I have heard: At one time during the dry season, during the hot afternoon, the World-Honored One was sitting peacefully on a straw mat ...

Zen is said to be the direct and instantaneous way to enter the sublime company of all the Buddhas by just leaping over all conceptual thi...

Q: Roshi, what is the Wu, Satori state like? Can you describe it to me? A: At first you may be over-excited. Dizzy, even, with the Zen-sickn...

Q: Roshi, what is the difference between satori and kensho? I sometimes hear them spoken of as if they are the same. Why the different words...

"Attaining no-thought and no-mind in a single instant is the true ancient way of Zen." With the cessation of thought all the hues ...

1. To understand the principle of dependent-arising. 2. To distinguish form and Emptiness. 3. To summarize the three characters. 4. To reve...