Morning Readings

Each weekday morning we start our service with a reading. You'll find the archive here.

Due to copyright restrictions, we do not publish the actual text to the readings. We do however link to a Google search that should help you find it quickly.

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Ikkyu

November 2025

Mon

17

Nov

Please, Please

September 2025

Wed

03

Sep

The Fisherman

September 2024

Mon

16

Sep

I don't worry please please...

January 2024

Mon

15

Jan

Icy Window, Windy Snow

November 2023

Tue

07

Nov

Rain poems (Ikkyu)

March 2022

Fri

04

Mar

Peace isn’t luck for six years stand facing a silent wall Until the you of your face melts like a candle [Excerpt]

Fri

04

Mar

Don’t wait for the man standing in the snow To cut off his arm help him now [Excerpt]

July 2021

Wed

14

Jul

I went half crazy studying sitting for days

February 2021

Wed

03

Feb

icy window windy snow moon tangled among black flowers

January 2021

Fri

29

Jan

self other right wrong wasting your life arguing you’re happy really you

Wed

27

Jan

Alone with the icy moon no passion

September 2020

Wed

09

Sep

Every day priests minutely examine the Dharma

August 2020

Wed

12

Aug

Self other right wrong wasting your life arguing / You’re happy really you are happy.

July 2020

Wed

15

Jul

Don’t worry please please how many times do I have to say it. There’s no way not to be who you are and where

June 2020

Tue

30

Jun

Poem on the Portrait of Bodhidharma

Fri

26

Jun

Peace isn’t Luck

Fri

26

Jun

Don’t Wait for the Man in the Snow

May 2020

Wed

13

May

Ten dumb years I wanted things to be different...

April 2020

Wed

08

Apr

Silent flower of the mind opens

Thu

02

Apr

Sick of Names