Step Zero Zen Recovery

05/02/2026

Open the door to a deeper understanding of yourself—with guided meditations and insights for living a more examined life.

05/02/2026

“Space is as important in communicating as talking.”

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

05/02/2026

When faith in what we are trying to accomplish is strong, faith in ourselves, the teaching, or the teacher – the three really being inseparable – then all discomfort become unimportant.
- Roshi Philip Kapleau, Awakening to Zen

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05/01/2026

SFZC’s leadership shares an update with the sangha on the Tassajara zendo fire and the challenges ahead. “The loss of the zendo does not change its central place in our training mandala or our practice of mindful hospitality. We intend to launch the summer guest season shortly, to hold practice periods in the fall and winter, and continue monastic life in the valley as we find our way forward. The forms may shift in response to conditions, but the heart of practice at Tassajara remains.”

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05/01/2026

“To our horror we find that there is no place to run. We are discovered in the act of hiding behind a facade, exposed on all sides; the padding and armor that we have worn are all stripped away. There is no longer any place to hide. Shocking! Everything is revealed, our petty pretense and egotism. At this point we might realize that our clumsy attempt to wear a mask has all along been pointless.”

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to s...

05/01/2026

cuke.com/ig for links to the lecture and image source. This is an excerpt edited from lecture 65-08-26 at shunryusuzuki.com/OtherFiles.asp?ID=63. We are continually working on improving the quality of transcriptions of Suzuki's lectures. After a new "verbatim transcript" is made, we create a minimally edited version which is more readable. See the most recently completed transcripts at shunryusuzuki.com/n. We are online at cuke.com, cukenew.blogspot.com and ShunryuSuzuki.com. Contact: daily@cuke.com.

05/01/2026

"Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self." - Carl Jung

05/01/2026

"Smart people respect simple language not because simple words are easy, but because expressing interesting ideas in small words takes a lot of work," Derek Thompson wrote in 2022: https://theatln.tc/MC7Qj04F

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05/01/2026

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to s...

05/01/2026

05/01/2026