• Collective Dangers
• Sweet Charity
• Socrates Teaches Zen to Phaedrus
• Giving and Receiving
• Connections
• Alchemical Detachment and Integration (Series)
• Expectations
• The Middle Way
• Karma Yoga: Zen for the Discontented Worker
• Zen Abuses
• Cults And Not Quitting Your Day Job
• Sound Versus Sight
• Zen, Justice, and the Martial Arts
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• The Importance of Being Wanted
• The Lex Talionis and Desire
• What is Zen Buddhism?
• Sex, Semantics, and Chauvinism
• The Habit of Seeking Truth
• Zen For Profit
• Sesshin
• The Diamond and Heart Sutras
• Dharma & Karma
• Kudzu, Black Pearls, and Dangerous Beliefs
• "Righteous" Venom
• Heaven & Hell
• The White Birds
• Archive (more essays)

 »  Essays by Chuan Zhi Shakya

• Science and Spiritual Inquiry: Striking a Balance
• True Atonement
• Useless Distractions
• Ancient Wisdom - The Blue Lotus
• King of the Road: On Lonliness and Solitude
• Suffering: Zen and the Four Noble Truths
• Whatever Your Name: on religious tolerance and acts of terrorism
• Archetypal Integration
• Snapping and Zeno's Paradox
• Being a Good Shepherd and Being a Non-Shepherd
• Reincarnation
• Eating the Menu
• Transcending The Profane Through Dharma
• Anger, Thought, and Insight
• Cultivating Buddhi: The Dharma of Right Action
• The Healing Breath Revisited
• Dreams and Visions
• A Conversation on Zen and God
• Dangerous Zeal

 »  Essays by Chuan Heng Shakya

• The Song of Courage
• Bright Lights, Lonely Spot
• My Teacher, My Self
• Lessons from the Dark Side of the Moon
• Performance Anxiety
• Lin Ji and the Jazzman

 »  Essays by Chuan Kong Shakya

• A Fork in the Road
• Get Lost
• Upon Awakening in the Morning

 »  Essays by Yin Zhao Shakya

• Sour Grapes
• The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg
• The Hound and the Hare

 » Essays from our Readers and Sangha

• Chan-shih Tai Yuan’s Dung
• The Box
• Zen and the art of Windsurfing
• Free Expense

• Masters of Maya
• Beyond Scientific Truth

 » Column: Ask Sifu: A Martial Arts Column

Chan Quan and Meditation
• Chan Quan - Part 4
• Chan Quan - Part 3
• Chan Quan - Part 2: Diliquan
• Chan Quan, part 1
• Husband and Wife
• Union of Mind and Body
• Preponderance of the Great
• Peace
• Water over Mountain
• Wind supports the Mountain
• The Wind Moves the Mountain

 » Column: Staying Sober

• Breaking Habits
• Pregnancy and Drinking
• White Flags and Making Friends
• "Hey, Doc, it hurts when I do this"
• Getting Out of the Swamp

 » Column: Turbid Revelations

• Merry Whatever
• Why I Am Not a Zen Master
• Dubious Transactions
• Vested Interests
• Among Other Things
• That Sinking Feeling
• Lhasa Apsos
• Zen and the Dharmakaya Cadillac
• The Boxer Rebellion

 » Column: Modest Proposals

• The Dread and The Awe
• The Garden of Mists
• The Not So Empty Cloud of Zen

• The Monkey Lesson
• The Costume of the Actor
• The Swindler and the Widow's Mite
• The Man Who Walked Backwards
• On Rationalizing Negligence

• Chants of India
• Dharani of the Great Compassionate One
• The Gayatri
• The Sitatapatratrosnisa Dharani
• Dai Hi Shin Dharani
• Naadhi Sodhani Kriya
• Four Vows of the Bodhisattva
• Hakuin's Song of Zazen
• Ti Sarana
• The Verse of Purification
• Kanzeon Sutra

• Prayer to the Bodhisattva
• A Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
• Torei Zenji's Bodhisattva's Vow
• Treasure of the Law
• Meal Prayer
• Into The Eternity
• Incense Lighting Offering

• 50 Poems by Hsu Yun, (in 5 series)
• Six Popular poems by Hsu Yun
• Muhammed and the Huge Eater
• Poems on the Oxherding series, by Master Hsu Yun

• Shiva at the Event Horizon by Yin Din Shakya
• A Poem by Petko of Bulgaria
• Special Haiku from Australia
• Poems of G.E. (Yao Feng)
• Yao Feng (of the tropics)
• Yao Feng (Of Tasmania)
• Fa Hu
• Fa Xin
• Fa Ming (of the Garden State)
• Chuan Kong Shakya
• Yin Ming Shakya
• Yao Feng (of the Islands)
• Fa Ming
• Yin Zhao Shakya
• e.j.
• Zenmar
• Thanh Nguyen