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The Clear View Project blog is moving! You can find the blog at the newly re-designed Clear View Project website: https://www.clearviewproject.org/news/ In the coming weeks we will deactivate the old blog and set up a permanent re-direct to the new … Continue reading →

The comments below were catalyzed by an ongoing exchange of ideas on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship website. I encourage you to explore the dialogue there. Mine is just one voice.  http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/buddhists-and-the-bloc/ —Hozan *** Please forgive the rambling nature of these … Continue reading →

The Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness invite us to be mindful of the body in the body, feelings in the feelings, breath in the breath. This means becoming aware of actions and thoughts from within themselves, within ourselves. In just this … Continue reading →

Nyogen Senzaki was the first Japanese Zen master to live and teach on our shores. Along with one hundred twenty thousand Americans of Japanese ancestry, he was interned as an enemy alien, confined at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War … Continue reading →

A friend’s comment last week surfaced my old appreciation for the work of Alfred Jarry, author of the wild and astonishing farce, Ubu Roi, father of the science of Pataphysics. Ubu Roi (King Ubu), a satire about greed, power, and delusion that … Continue reading →

The Golden Buddha of Nagaloka There’s a lot going on. A few notes before I leave. Tomorrow morning I fly to India for a conference of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB). We are gathering at Nagaloka, the school … Continue reading →

  The statement below is a unique collaboration among Soto Zen Buddhists in the west. With roots in China and in the 13th century teachings of Eihei Dogen, Soto Zen is one of the largest of Japan’s Buddhist denominations. This … Continue reading →

  The fabric of a criminal trial is woven of stories…                                                           … Continue reading →

  Clear View Project                                                                         … Continue reading →

    For thirty-four years, since the age of nineteen, Jarvis Jay Masters has been in San Quentin. For thirty of those years he has lived on the scene of a crime he did not commit. His lawyers Joe Baxter … Continue reading →