CONTEMPORARY ZEN PRACTICE AND INQUIRY

Appamada Writing

See also: Selected Writing, Peg Syverson

• 2025

  • Reflections on Cause & Effect, May 5, 2025

  • Reflections on Cause & Effect (Part 2), May 12, 2025

• 2024

  • Light & Dark Together, Nov 5, 2024

• 2021

  • Reflections on Zen and Sangha, Sept 20, 2021

  • What does a sangha need? Sept 20, 2021

  • The Four Noble Truths for Community, September 22, 2021

  • On Spiritual Friendship, September 28, 2021

• 2020

  • How to be Disagreeable, Feb 2, 2020

  • Dharma Teacher Entrustment, Feb 12, 2020

  • Courage and Caution in an Age of Fear, Mar 8, 2020

  • Practicing with the Brahmaviharas, Mar 15, 2020

  • Meeting the Pandemic, Apr 5, 2020

  • Threading the Needle, Apr 26, 2020

  • Where do you come from? May 17, 2020

• 2019

  • Non-Oppositional Disagreement, Feb 9, 2019

  • Resolving Disagreements, Feb 9, 2019

  • Noble Simplicity, Apr 30, 2019

• 2018

  • Building the Habit of Inquiry, Dec 27, 2018

• 2017

  • The War on Consciousness, Feb 22, 2017

  • Values, Purpose, and Drive, July 14, 2017

  • Emptiness, Karma, and President Obama, Aug 27, 2017

  • Meditation on Breathing, Aug 31, 2017

  • Chicago Branching Streams Conference Report, Sept 25, 2017

• 2016

  • A Reflection, Sept 14, 2016

  • 2016 SZBA Conference, Oct 5, 2016