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Flower Mountain Zen

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Newsletters 2025

April and May 2025

April 6 Bright Clarity Falls in a Well

April 20 Bright Clarity Falls in a Well

May 4 Sharp Sword, Branches of Coral

May 18 Sharp Sword, Branches of Coral

January/February/March 2025

January 5: Start Again

January 19: Start Again

February 9: A Silver Bowl Filled With Snow

February 16: A Silver Bowl Filled With Snow

March 2: A Silver Bowl Filled With Snow

March 16: A Silver Bowl Filled With Snow

March 30: A Silver Bowl Filled With Snow

Newsletters 2024

October /November/December 2024

October 13    Hildegard Listening 1

October 20  Hildegard Listening 2

November 3  Not a Disaster

November 17 Don't Be Satisfied

December 1 A Goose In a Bottle

December 15 Goose? Bottle?

August /September 2024

August 4    Seamless Monument

August 18  South of the Xiang

September 1 Heraclitus River 1

September 13 Heraclitus River 2


May /June 2024 (SPRING)

May 2     Turning Around

May 19   Bounding in the Moonlight

June 2 Same Body

June 16 Standing Up

June 30 Heart Unclouded


MARCH/APRIL 2024 (SPRING)

March 3     Looking for Spring

March 17   Worn Out

March 31 Smelling the Flowers

April 7 The Tao Gives Birth

April 21 The Tao and the 10,000 Things

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2024 (LISTENING)

January 7      The Other Side of Silence

January 21    The Squirrel's Heartbeat

February 4     The Wind Blows Hard

February 18  Toward the Beginning

Newsletters 2023

November/December 2023 (The Cause of Water)

November 5  The Cause of Water

November 19 Exquisite Touch

December 3  Wisdom is Heart-Mind

December 17 Heart-Mind is Wisdom

September/October 2023 (Space and Learning)

September 1 The Space Between Things

September 15 A Window, a Bowl, the Hub of a Wheel

October 1 Who is My Teacher?

October 15 How Do I Learn From A Teacher?

October 30 Learning, Like Water

June/August 2023

June 4 Enough Space for Fish to Swim and Birds to Fly

June 18 Tearing into the Sky, Leaping in the Deep

August  6 The Koan About the Dog

August 20 Wu and the Space for Possibilities


APRIL/MAY 2023 (YUNMEN AND SPRING CHAN POETRY)

April 4  People Have A Shining Brightness

April 16  Where You Live and Eat

May 7  A New Spring

May 22 Far from the Realm of Time

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2023 (YU DAOPO)

February 5 The Adventures Of Yu Daopo

February 19 Stepping Stones

March 5 Yu Daopo Throws Down Her Pan

March 19 Swiftly Flowing Water

JANUARY 2023 (NO-POSITION GENUINE PERSON GG 23)

January 1 A Genuine Person

January 15 No-Position

January 29 If You Haven't Seen Her Yet

Newsletters August - December 2022

November/december 2022 (Speaking)

December 4   Say Something

December 18  Effortless

November 2    The Fiery Life (Hildegard)

November 18 I Burn in the Sun and the Moon and the Stars

October 2022 (Chiyono and Her Bucket)

October 2nd By Chance or Design

October 16  The Pure Moon through the Pines

October 30 Suddenly!

September 2022 (Not Knowing)

September 4th Wandering

September 18th  I Don't Know

August 2022 (A Basin in the mind)

August 7 A Gulf of Feeling

August 21 A Basin in the Mind

past Newsletters

2022 January - June

January 2, 2022 The Particular (Ancient Mirror)

January 16, 2022 Confusion  (Ancient Mirror)

January 30, 2022 Seeing You (Ancient Mirror)


February 6, 2022 Tao De Ching 21 (1)

February 20, 2022 Tao De Ching 21 (2)


March 6, 2022 Qian's Souls Separated (1)

March 20, 2022 Qian's Souls Separated (2)


April 3, 2022 After the Fire (1) (Santoka)

April 17, 2022 After the Fire (2) (Santoka)


May 1 What Embodies Wonder?

May 15 Don't You Remember?

May 29 Looks like Reality


June 5th Stop the War 

June 19th Stop the War



September- December 2021

September 5, 2021 A Place to Sit 

September 19  A Place to Sit (2)


October 3, 2021  Essential Nature

October 17, 2021  Rounder Sharper

October 31, 2021  Things as They Are


November 7, 2021  Normal Heart Mind

November 21, 2021  Spacious and Generous


December  5  What is the Tao Like?

December 19 Shall I Reach Toward It?


July/August 2021

July 2 2021 Difficult and Easy 

July 15 2021  Difficult and Easy


July 29 2021:  The Goose in the Bottle

August 15 2021 The Goose in the Bottle

August 29, 2021 The Goose in the Bottle


May/June 2021

May 2 2021 The Light Behind the Blinds 

May 16 2021  Winners and Losers

May 30 2021: Me and Other Me


June 6, 2021 Song of the Cuckoo

June 20 2021 Song of the Cuckoo (2)


March/April 2021

March 7 2021 Tao Te Ching 4: The Tao is Made of Dust

March 21 2021  Tao Te Ching 4: Sweet Deep Well


April 4 2021: You Can't Miss

April 18 2021: Even if You Try

January/February 2021

January 10 2021  Donut Maker: A True Person

January 17 2021  Donut Maker: Finding Your Way to the Lake

January 31 2021 Donut Maker: For Ten Thousand Years


February 7 2021 Donut Maker: This is Not Your Realm!

February 21 2021 Donut Maker: The True Person Has Six Arms 

november/December 2020

November 15 2020 Not Difficult/Picking and Choosing

November 23, 2020, Thanksgiving


December 6 2020  Stone Woman

December 18, 2020, Stone Woman

October 2020

October 1 2020,

The World in All Directions

October 16, 2020,

Because There is No Me

October 31, 2020,

Not Picking and Choosing

August/september 2020

August 2 Step by Step in the Dark

August 15 Walking in the Dark Together

August 30 Following Your Feet


September 19  As Night Falls, the Heart Begins to See

May/June 2020

May 1 Tao Te Ching 45 True Power: Finding a Path

May 8 Tao Te Ching 45 True Power: Mistakes

May 16 Simone Weil Inner Gold

Mary 22 Whose Handwriting?

May 29 Not Knowing the Meaning


June 7 Scornful Revilement

June 14 Scornful Revilement

June 21 Awakening the Dragon Girl

June 28 Dragon Girl

March/April 2020

March 8th Sickness and Medicine

March 13th Sickness and Medicine

March 20th Sickness and Medicine


March 28th The Heart-Mind Turns

April 3rd The Heart-Mind Turns


April 10th Still the Same Body

April 17th Still the Same Body

April 24th Still the Same Body

January/february 2020

January 31, 2020

Stop the War

January 23rd

The Koan of the Donut Maker

January 16th 

The Koan of the Donut Maker

January 9th 

The Koan of the Donut Maker

January 1st

The Koan of the Donut Maker

February 28th 

Old Woman, Ancient Mirror

February 21st

Old Woman, Ancient Mirror

February 14th 

Take the Role of Host 

February 7th 

Stop the War

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