Falmouth Soto Zen Sangha

Faith is a belief-system that tends not to change as conditions and variable shift. The term is most often associated with religion, as f...

"E Pluribus Unum" was the motto proposed for the first Great Seal of the United States by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jeffe...

Welcome to July! Takuhatsu(托鉢)(Pindacara) is a traditional form of dāna or alms given to Buddhist monks in Japan.[1]In the practice of ta...

Who are we that cannot answer? Are we unknowing? Are we shy? Are we without capability? Do we have no words? In our koan Kundalakesa may ...

With apology, the music I inserted in The Student-Teacher Relationship post, was not that of Taiun Elliston-roshi. Look for Sensei's mus...

In the authentic tradition of our teaching, it is said that this directly transmitted, straightforward buddha-dharma is the unsurpassable...

We name things to communicate. This labeling process requires some forethought and practice. In the English Christian tradition a baby ha...

Virya/ vigor/diligence is a compound term implying right effort, right concentration, and resilience. It is a "paramita," a Pali (first l...

All-sans, Here is the Zoom address for the June 7, 2020, Dharma Talk through the ASZC. Note this requires registering for the session: ht...

Sensei Joslyn, A request and upcoming talk specifics below. 1)  Can you share the event for your upcoming talk on the Falmouth Facebook p...

What is Love? We will explore Loving-kindness as a sutra. Please spend some time with experiencing the words and sounds below as you read...

This Tuesday, May 26, 2020, Inmo Joe LaBrecque will lead our Dharma discussion as he speaks about his Dharma name and Zen in everyday lif...

Male perspective of women in Buddhism has changed over the millennia (as have those of contemporary women practitioners). Shakyamuni Budd...

You can lead a horse to water...and if it does the backstroke you have something. Some time ago I read the Tao of Pooh, the Tao of Peanut...

May suggests hope for warm weather here on Cape Cod. It is also a time for the Falmouth Soto Zen Sangha to schedule a variety of ways to ...

It is "high time," when we realize that in times before, we should have been aware of something only now apparent. My Mother would say so...

Legend has it, that in 583 BC or thereabouts, Siddhartha Gautama was born in a grove near the town of Lumbini in Nepal. In Soto Zen we u...

Each month we feature a Dharma discussion lead by a member of our Sangha. Tuesday, April 14, 2020, Ikusei Jacqueline Lee will lead the ...

All, you made need to use a password to join us through Zoom either at the morning sit everyday at 6:30-7:15 Eastern or at our Tuesday ni...