DharmaCrafts' Teachings
Just This One Time- Koun Franz
A few years ago, for my birthday, I received a fitness tracker. It wasn’t a fancy one like everyone seems to have today—it didn’t even tell the time. It just...
Just This One Time- Koun Franz
A few years ago, for my birthday, I received a fitness tracker. It wasn’t a fancy one like everyone seems to have today—it didn’t even tell the time. It just...
Buddhism By The Numbers - Koun Franz
When I first fell in love with Buddhism I was in high school, and this new way of thinking was, for me, a bit too much to take in. I...
Buddhism By The Numbers - Koun Franz
When I first fell in love with Buddhism I was in high school, and this new way of thinking was, for me, a bit too much to take in. I...
Buddha On Lotus Throne
The production of Buddha statues only started a few hundred years after his death. During this time, it was an act of faith to create a statue made in Buddha’s...
Buddha On Lotus Throne
The production of Buddha statues only started a few hundred years after his death. During this time, it was an act of faith to create a statue made in Buddha’s...
We're All Soaked Through- Koun Franz
Here’s a small, intimate story from Buddhist history. When Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen in Japan, died, his disciples found that he had kept a journal of his conversations...
We're All Soaked Through- Koun Franz
Here’s a small, intimate story from Buddhist history. When Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen in Japan, died, his disciples found that he had kept a journal of his conversations...
May All Beings Be Happy- Koun Franz
Aside from the Heart Sutra, which is chanted in multiple traditions and in lots of ways, perhaps the sutra that has most touched Western Buddhism, or at least Western Buddhist...
May All Beings Be Happy- Koun Franz
Aside from the Heart Sutra, which is chanted in multiple traditions and in lots of ways, perhaps the sutra that has most touched Western Buddhism, or at least Western Buddhist...
The Three Poisons- Koun Franz
In our little Zen group, we chant this version of the verse of atonement: All my past and harmful karmaborn from beginningless greed, hate, and delusion,through body, speech, and mind,I...
The Three Poisons- Koun Franz
In our little Zen group, we chant this version of the verse of atonement: All my past and harmful karmaborn from beginningless greed, hate, and delusion,through body, speech, and mind,I...