“When the student is ready, the teacher will come.” I have been intrigued for years by the notion that when the teacher is ready, the...

Last week, Dr. Gala put in my third and fourth stents, nine months after he’d done the first two. He’d expected to do them last spring,...

The account of Bodhidharma ’s meeting with Emperor Wu, the first case in The Blue Cliff Record , is one of those koans to which I return...

When I have talked about koan study, I have often noted how little instruction I received in how to actually work with a koan. The advice...