• Home
  • About
    • Silent Thunder Order
    • Lineage
    • Leaders
    • Organization
    • Affiliates
    • Our Priests & Disciples
  • Teachings
    • Dharma Cloud Study Group
    • The Original Frontier
    • The Razor Blade of Zen
    • Dharma Bytes
    • Soto Zen Buddhism
    • Reading List
    • Buddhist Terms
  • Practice Support
    • Zen at Home
    • Practice Path
    • Mentoring Support
    • Residential Practice
    • Sewing Tradition
    • Dharma Bits: Community Blog
  • Giving
    • Giving
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Retreats
      • 2025 STO May Precepts Sesshin
      • 2024 STO/ASZC Fall Retreat
      • 2024 STO May Precepts Sesshin
      • 2023 STO Fall Retreat

Call us (678)609-3555

storderinfo@gmail.com
Silent Thunder Order
  • Home
  • About
    • Silent Thunder Order
    • Lineage
    • Leaders
    • Organization
    • Affiliates
    • Our Priests & Disciples
  • Teachings
    • Dharma Cloud Study Group
    • The Original Frontier
    • The Razor Blade of Zen
    • Dharma Bytes
    • Soto Zen Buddhism
    • Reading List
    • Buddhist Terms
  • Practice Support
    • Zen at Home
    • Practice Path
    • Mentoring Support
    • Residential Practice
    • Sewing Tradition
    • Dharma Bits: Community Blog
  • Giving
    • Giving
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Retreats
      • 2025 STO May Precepts Sesshin
      • 2024 STO/ASZC Fall Retreat
      • 2024 STO May Precepts Sesshin
      • 2023 STO Fall Retreat

 

Home Dharma Bytes (Page 10)

DHARMA BYTES BLOG

Thoughts From Our Abbot: Sensei Michael Elliston

Sensei Michael EllistonDharma Bytes blog posts are essays written by the Silent Thunder Order’s guiding teacher; Zenkai Taiun Michael Elliston, Roshi. These posts are updated regularly and include a wide range of topics related to Zen Buddhism, politics, and society. For blog posts written by other Silent Thunder Order disciples and priests check out Dharma Bits: Community Blog.

Dying

Dying

April 3, 2015

I wrote about aging in a prior Dharma Byte, as I can testify to knowing […]

Read More
0
Causality

Causality

March 3, 2015

The principle of causality in Zen is not simply that what goes around comes around. […]

Read More
0
Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone

February 3, 2015

No, it’s not about the 1984 movie staring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. When I […]

Read More
0
CELEBRATING THE OLD YEAR -WELCOMING THE NEW

CELEBRATING THE OLD YEAR -WELCOMING THE NEW

January 3, 2015

Each year at this time we look back, sometimes with regret; and forward, sometimes with […]

Read More
0
Improvisation

Improvisation

December 1, 2014

Improvisation is a term that may apply to all, or at least most, activities in life; […]

Read More
0
From the Mouth of Rev. Matsuoka Roshi                  Founder’s Month 2014

From the Mouth of Rev. Matsuoka Roshi Founder’s Month 2014

November 1, 2014

“Be careful of that one little thing that you allow yourself… that is what will […]

Read More
0
THE PLATFORM SHASTRA OF TAIUN

THE PLATFORM SHASTRA OF TAIUN

September 1, 2014

With apologies to Master Huineng, or whomever actually published his biography, which we are studying […]

Read More
0
Looking Forward, Looking Back

Looking Forward, Looking Back

August 29, 2014

Last Saturday, we held the fourth annual conference of the network of Zen centers and […]

Read More
0
Aging Graceful

Aging Graceful

July 1, 2014

The following request was sent to me by one of our more senior members: Gassho […]

Read More
0
Heaven and Earth are”Not Two”

Heaven and Earth are”Not Two”

June 1, 2014

In the ancient Chinese poems that we are studying in the current trimester (May-Aug), the […]

Read More
0
  • 1
  • 2
  • …
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • …
  • 15
  • 16

Search blog posts

Dharma Byte Archives

Categories

Atlanta Soto Zen Center Blog

March 2021 Gassho Newsletter

March 2021 Gassho Newsletter

March 24, 2021

What Is a Zen Garden?

What Is a Zen Garden?

July 31, 2020

Recently, I noticed that many people find our website by...

Swords into Plowshares

Swords into Plowshares

July 22, 2020

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash That Old...

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality

July 6, 2020

Virtually real —We see it just as it is,Sitting with fixed...

Memorial Day

Memorial Day

June 29, 2020

Memorial Day Sneaks up on you with a bang! What to remember?...

Contact Us

We're currently offline. Send us an email and we'll get back to you, asap.

Send Message
We depend only on your wholehearted giving. Donate to STO

Social Links

Contact Us

  • Silent Thunder Order
  • (678)609-3555
  • storderinfo@gmail.com

Quick Links

Donate

Newsletter

Blog

Search

This work by the Silent Thunder Order is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use