Selected Writing
Peg Syverson
Book Project
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
Writings
Akkosaka Insults the Buddha
Attention and Intention
Blog post archive
Buddha on the Taints
A Buddhist Perspective on Abortion
Connection, Community, Commitment
A Dedicated Space Makes Everything Possible
Emptiness, Karma, and President Obama
Enough
Forms and Practice
Four Noble Truths and Anatta
Freedom
How to Get What You Want
Institutions and Zen
Kitchens and Zen
Mastery and Zen
Mind is the Creator
A Movement
No Boundaries: Saying No and Staying Connected
Pain, Repetition, Variety, Boredom, Persistence
Reflection on Right Use of Power
Resistance in Practice
Right Use of Power Service
The Role of Spiritual Community
Spiritual Friendship
Thinking in Systems
Three Minds of Thanksgiving
Three Orders of Practice
What Is to Be Done About This Now?
Zen is Aperspectival
Zen Training and Mindfulness
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