Byron Kaye
Byron Kaye is an author at Religion News Service.
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COMMENTARY: No Techniques
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Les Kaye spent over 30 years in the high-tech corporate world. He is currently the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of “Zen at Work” (Random House, 1997). He can be reached at medatwork(at)aol.com.) (UNDATED) Kyogen, a Zen monk of ninth century China, […]
COMMENTARY: No Techniques
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Les Kaye spent over 30 years in the high-tech corporate world. He is currently the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of “Zen at Work” (Random House, 1997). He can be reached at medatwork(at)aol.com.) (UNDATED) Kyogen, a Zen monk of ninth century China, […]
COMMENTARY: A Boat Full of Fish and Nothing to Show for It
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Les Kaye spent over 30 years in the high-tech, corporate world. He is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of “Zen at Work” (Random House, 1997). His e-mail address is medatwork(at)aol.com.) (UNDATED) He emerged from sleep unrested, heavy with the usual aggressiveness. […]
COMMENTARY: The foolish Bodhisattva
By Byron Kaye — August 24, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is the abbot of Kannon Do, the Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of “Zen at Work” (Crown, 1997). He teaches meditation in Silicon Valley.) UNDATED _ The Saturday was sunny and mild. But I was in traffic school because I did something foolish. Approaching […]
COMMENTARY: Everyone is lovable
By Byron Kaye — February 4, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, California and author of”Zen at Work.”He can be reached at medatwork(AT)aol.com.) UNDATED _ The record of human history traces key events, individuals, and social forces that contour civilizations and create new forms of societies. Yet, history […]
COMMENTARY: Compassion without politics
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of”Zen at Work.”He is the founder of Meditation at Work, an awareness training program for businesses.) UNDATED _ It began without my knowing, this feeling that I had to change the world, to […]
COMMENTARY: The true meaning of courtesy
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of”Zen at Work.”He is the founder of Meditation at Work, an awareness training program for businesses.) UNDATED _ The first Zen Buddhist wedding I attended, back in 1973, closed with the words,”Courtesy decorates […]
COMMENTARY: Learning to tune ourselves
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is the author of”Zen at Work”(Crown) and abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif.) UNDATED _ When I was very young, I had a childhood friend who was learning to play the violin. Late one autumn afternoon, when several of our crowd had taken […]
COMMENTARY: Coming down from the attic
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of”Zen at Work.”He is the founder of Meditation at Work, an awareness training program for businesses.) UNDATED _ I had lost track of him. We had not seen or spoken to one another […]
COMMENTARY: Polishing the rough spots
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of”Zen at Work.”He is the founder of Meditation at Work, an awareness training program for businesses.) UNDATED _ One morning, early in his monastic training and many years before becoming a renowned Zen […]
COMMENTARY: The beauty of non-efficient messiness
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is abbot of Kannon Do, a Zen Buddhist meditation center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of”Zen At Work: A Zen Teacher’s 30-Year Journey in Corporate America (Crown).) UNDATED _ Captivated by the problem-solving power of science, I entered the working world as a design engineer. From my […]
COMMENTARY: The spiritual life: It’s not about winning
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is abbot of Kannon Do, a Zen meditation center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of the new book”Zen At Work: A Zen Teacher’s 30-Year Journey in Corporate America (Crown).) UNDATED _ I started Zen practice 30 years ago, not fully understanding what I was getting into. Expecting […]
COMMENTARY: On the spiritual path, the key is trust
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is the abbot of the Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and the author of”Zen at Work”(Crown).) UNDATED _ I don’t think it makes much difference what spiritual practice we choose, and there are certainly a wide variety to choose from these days. But whatever […]
COMMENTARY: Nirvana is here, right now
By Byron Kaye — May 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is abbot of the Kannon-do Zen Center in Mountain View, Calif.) (RNS)-A student once asked Zen master Shunryu Suzuki,”What is Nirvana?”He replied,”Seeing one thing through to the end.” Suzuki-roshi, as he was known, (roshi means teacher) came to this country from Japan in the mid-1950s and established Zen […]
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