E-Publication

+ 2023

Spring 2023

-The Noble Eightfold Path – Part II
-Directly Practice "No Mind"
-Expanding Practice Into Daily Life
-Solitary Practice: "To the Noble Monk Cheng"
-Admonitions to Disciples

Summer 2023

-The Noble Eightfold Path – Part III
-Silent Illumination: "Admonition on Chan Practice"
-Being With
-Remembering Lindley Hanlon

Winter 2023

-The Noble Eightfold Path – Part I
-Like a Sound Absorbing Board – Methods of Practice Using the Ears
-Mindfulness of Breathing as Applied to Advanced Chan Methods
-A Guide to Si‚ing Chan
-Checklist for Si‚ing Meditation

+ 2022

Spring 2022

-Freeing Captive Animals
-Blessing a Deceased Pet
-Sentient Beings
-Pets and Practice

Summer 2022

-False and True Self
-All Is Me, All Is Not Me
-Awakening of the Buddha Mind: Turning the Mind's Eye Inward
-Among Friends – In Memory of Th­ích Nhất Hạnh
-Incomplete Enlightenments
-Small Self versus No Self

Autumn 2022

-Mind, Matter, and Emptiness
-Taming the Mind Is the Foundation of Chan Meditation
-What's Going On in the Mind
-Resolving Anxiety the Chan Buddhist Way

Winter 2022

-Essential Buddhist Concepts and Beliefs
-Mindfulness and Everyday Life of Monastics
-Origins of Chan Practice
-The Correct View of Meditation

+ 2021

Spring 2021

-Talking about Dreams While in Dreams
-Human Beings, Not Human Doings
-TheBett er Way to be Confined
-Seven-Day Online Retreat
-Retreat Report: Seven-Day Online Retreat
-Retreats, Workshops & Group Meditation
-Chan Meditation Center Affiliates

Summer 2021

- Feelings and Affection in Buddhist Life
- Handling Ethnic, Religious, and Political Entanglement
- Loneliness
- Sex, Love and Practice
- Avoiding Stagnant Practice
- Chan Meditation Center Affiliates

Autumn 2021

- Seeking Enlightenment through Chan Practice
- Attachment
- Exhausting the Potential of Our Method
- Take Circumstances as They Come
- An Interview with Rebecca Li
- Chan Meditation Center Affiliates

Winter 2021

- Making Use of Life’s Hard Time
- Living Fully Is to See Each Moment as Brand New
- The Jewel Net of Indra
- Group Meditation Going Online- Really?

+ 2020

Spring 2020

- The Mind Dharma of the Six Patriarch
- Verse on No-Form
- The Message of the Platform Sutra
- The Legacy of the Platform Sutra

Summer 2020

- On Mindfulness of Birth and Death
- Corona Pandemic 2020
- Do Not Invest in Fear, Hatred, or Ignorance
- In This Burning House
- Restoring Meaning to Our Lives in the Pandemic
- Remembering Virginia Tan
- Brahmavihara - In Memory of Virginia Tan

Autumn 2020

- Don’t Destory the Emotions of People
- The Heart of Humanity -Human Renewal
- Mind Seal: New Translations of the Classic Xin Ming

Winter 2020

- Turned by Lotus Sutra, Turning the Lotus Sutra
- Light and Quakes
- Dharma of the One Vehicle
- The Fruits of Daily Practice
- Method of Contemplation in Silent Illumination

+ 2019

Spring 2019

-The Easy and the Difficult Path
of Bodhisattva Practice
- An Interview with Simon Child
- Monastic Retreat Report
- Life and Death

Summer 2019

- Life in a Chan Monastery
- Checklist for Sitting Meditation
- Commentaries on Zongze’s Procedures of Seated Meditation : Part 1

Autumn 2019

- Daily Practice and Intensive Practice
- Procedures of Seated Meditation
- Commentaries on Zongze’s
Procedures of Seated Meditation – Part 2
- On Samatha – Vipasyana and Silent Illumination


Winter 2019

- Flowers in Sky, Moon in Water
- The Essentials of Chan Practice
- Great-Great-Grand Master Empty Cloud
- There Is Not a Thing That Cannot Be Accomplished

+ 2018

Spring 2018

- Returning to Origins
- Shunning or Renouncing the World
- Why Do We (Buddhist Dharma Practitioners) March?

Summer 2018

- My Intellectual Autobiography: Becoming a Monk and Returning to the Life of a Monk
- Global Buddhist Village Symposium

Autumn 2018

- Impermanence and Non-Self
- Freedom Through Impermanence
- The Problem of Death
- On Death
- Bodhisattva Precepts: A Chan View

Winter 2018

- The Edge of a Cloud
- Choosing an Illuminated Buddhist Teacher
- Buddhism and the New Global Society
- Dharma Practice in an Age of Technological Dystopia

+ 2017

Spring 2017

- The Place of Women in Buddhism
- Buddhism and Race
- Return to Shawangunk
- Mindfulness of Breathing as Applied to Advanced Chan Methods

Summer 2017

- My Practice and Transmission
- Explaining the Mission of Transmitting the Dharma
- The Circling Birds: Openings to Insight on the Path of Chan

Autumn 2017

- Chan Monasticism
- Grand Opening of Tallahassee Chan Center
- Deluded Thoughts, States of Mind, and Discrimination

Winter 2017

- The Mind is Like the Sun Shining in Empty Space
- Completing the Circle
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind – Part 14
- Shared Retreat Experience
- Making Friends with Discomfort

+ 2016

Spring 2016

- My Intellectual Autobiography – Life in the Army
- Don’t Think
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind – Part 11

Summer 2016

- An Ecstatic Experience in the Universe
- The Importance of Faith
- What’s so Special about the Present Moment?
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind – Part 12

Autumn 2016

- The Methods of Practice of Chan and Pure Land
- Chan School Use of Pure Land Methods
- A Bridge from the East to the West
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind – Part 13

Winter 2016

- My Intellectual Autobiography: Childhood and Youth
- Constructing a Sense of Self
- Off the Cuff and Over the Cliff
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind – Part 10

+ 2015

Spring 2015

- Reason and Emotion
- Strong Determination
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind – Part 7

Summer 2015

- Selfishness and Selflessness
- Fast Food Zen: The Way to “Unlightenment”
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind – Part 8
- In Daily Life Purify the Mind

Autumn 2015

- Making Offerings to the Lotus Sutra
- When Receiving Precepts?
- About Agarwood Incense
- Graceful Incense
- Praise of Incense
- Is It Necessary to Burn Incense Scars
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind – Part 9

Winter 2015

- Reading Sutras as a Spiritual Practice
- Climbing the Mountain
- Start With a Firm Foundation
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind – Part 6

+ 2014

Spring 2014

- A Dream Narrative
- Butterfly Dream
- My Mother′s Last Gift
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind - Part 3
- Training Story

Summer 2014

- Enlightenment and the Ten Ox Herding Pictures
- Music from the Chan/Zen Mind
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind - Part 4

Autumn 2014

- Be a Buddha in Mind, Speech, and Action
- Being With
- Song of the Thatched Hut
- What a Splendid Life
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance From the True Mind - Part 5

Winter 2014

- Settling the Mind
- Not Becoming Buddhist
- Chan Thought and Chan Action
- The Arising of Conditioned Appearance from the True Mind - Part 2