Shohaku Okumura

Shohaku Okumura is a Soto Zen priest, a dharma successor of Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, and the founding teacher of the Sanshin Zen Community in Bloomington, Indiana. He is also an author and translator.

Magazine History & Philosophy

Dogen’s Freeing Verse

A look at the works of a Zen master who disparaged literature despite being a prolific poet

By Shohaku Okumura

Spring 2022

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The Chimera of Human Advancement

Three Soto Zen masters discuss the mistaking of technological progress for human transformation.

Kodo Sawaki, Kosho Uchiyama, and Shohaku Okumura

Oct 15, 2014

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What You’re Not Doing Matters

Making the choice to use restraint and self-discipline is equally as powerful as taking action—if not more so.

By Kimberly Brown

Mar 31, 2022

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Lie Down and Breathe

What Corpse Pose can teach us about starting again

By Octavia Raheem

Spring 2022

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Meditating With Emptiness

In this Dharma Talk, Kurt Spellmeyer—a Zen priest and a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey—discusses the importance of emptiness in Zen Buddhism.

Kurt Spellmeyer

Mar 2022

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