Selected Writing
Peg Syverson
Essays and Talks
The Thought of Enlightenment, published in The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon
The Green Edge, presented at SZBA and LZTA conferences
Reflection on Right Use of Power
Right Use of Power Service
Forms and Practice
Buddha on the Taints
Blog post archive
Thinking in Systems
Institutions and Zen
A Buddhist Perspective on Abortion
Emptiness, Karma, and President Obama
Resistance in Practice
Mastery and Zen
Spiritual Friendship
Akkosaka Insults the Buddha
A Movement
The Role of Spiritual Community
A Dedicated Space Makes Everything Possible
What Is to Be Done About This Now?
Three Orders of Practice
Pain, Repetition, Variety, Boredom, Persistence
Zen Training and Mindfulness
Zen is Aperspectival
Kitchens and Zen
No Boundaries: Saying No and Staying Connected
Attention and Intention
Enough
Mind is the Creator
Connection, Community, Commitment
Freedom
How to Get What You Want
Four Noble Truths and Anatta
Three Minds of Thanksgiving
Zen Lights
Buddhas in the Mist
How the Buddha Left Home
How to Meditate at Home
Waking Up is Hard to Do
Way-Seeking Mind Talks
2011 Wander into the Center of the Circle and Wonder: Teacher Entrustment Ceremony
Poems
A Child in the Woods
A Hundred Thousand Million Kalpas
How Simple Can You Let This Be?
In Formal Zen Robes
Inside a Moment
Leanne Venier Painting and poem
Lowering Skies
The Muse
The World Out There
There Were So Many of Us
To Study the Buddha Way
Trapped in the Boundless Infinity of Love
With my sister, Nora