Rev. Mudo Seiho Morris
@mudoseiho.bsky.social
Zen monk sharing cloud and water notes on experience of experiencing.
Zen is releasing the mythology created by thought and strengthened by conditioning. In my experience, liberation is rarely about adding more or becoming more. It comes through removing what clouds seeing and being. Addition by subtraction. Less can very definitely be more.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
February 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Zen is releasing the mythology created by thought and strengthened by conditioning. In my experience, liberation is rarely about adding more or becoming more. It comes through removing what clouds seeing and being. Addition by subtraction. Less can very definitely be more.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
When I stopped living under the needy, greedy delusion that I was in competition... with others, with my current self gaming against a past self I thought was shitty, against a future self who would finally be "not as disappointing..." as a result of what I was artificially conditioned to value...
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 PM
When I stopped living under the needy, greedy delusion that I was in competition... with others, with my current self gaming against a past self I thought was shitty, against a future self who would finally be "not as disappointing..." as a result of what I was artificially conditioned to value...
Awakening is a personal experience of what is Universal. For this reason in our own way, we must come to the Reality of Jikō... our Universal identity, through the art of noticing what IS.
一We All Share the Same Sky
一We All Share the Same Sky
February 12, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Awakening is a personal experience of what is Universal. For this reason in our own way, we must come to the Reality of Jikō... our Universal identity, through the art of noticing what IS.
一We All Share the Same Sky
一We All Share the Same Sky
Reflections on Chisokū (知足)... having the ability to appreciate that when we're not entangled in thought we might be able to notice that we have enough and are enough.
一We Are the Practice Itself
一We Are the Practice Itself
February 11, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Reflections on Chisokū (知足)... having the ability to appreciate that when we're not entangled in thought we might be able to notice that we have enough and are enough.
一We Are the Practice Itself
一We Are the Practice Itself
Lessons of Ruth that have efforted to abide by, on a consistent basis. I don’t always do it perfectly… But that’s why it’s a process and not an event.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
February 6, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Lessons of Ruth that have efforted to abide by, on a consistent basis. I don’t always do it perfectly… But that’s why it’s a process and not an event.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
Thinking hasn’t disappeared. What has shifted is the allocation of my internal resources. Instead of being drained by commentary and opinion, they’re directed toward meeting reality as it is.
一We Are the Practice Itself
一We Are the Practice Itself
January 29, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Thinking hasn’t disappeared. What has shifted is the allocation of my internal resources. Instead of being drained by commentary and opinion, they’re directed toward meeting reality as it is.
一We Are the Practice Itself
一We Are the Practice Itself
Sokū (息)... To breathe... rest... to experience the natural pause 360°. It’s not an explicit intention or goal, however Zen training and practice, in my experience tends to influence our ability to pause and respond, rather than panic and react, in difficult or hard moments.
January 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Sokū (息)... To breathe... rest... to experience the natural pause 360°. It’s not an explicit intention or goal, however Zen training and practice, in my experience tends to influence our ability to pause and respond, rather than panic and react, in difficult or hard moments.
Reflections on community through the perspective of someone in longterm recovery from addiction.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
January 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Reflections on community through the perspective of someone in longterm recovery from addiction.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
We are the practice itself.
January 11, 2026 at 6:36 PM
We are the practice itself.
In my experience, zen is a very direct path. It’s thinking mind that inserts indirectness.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
January 7, 2026 at 1:04 PM
In my experience, zen is a very direct path. It’s thinking mind that inserts indirectness.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
一We All Share the Same Sky of Awareness
January 5, 2026 at 12:09 PM
一We All Share the Same Sky of Awareness
常 (Mujō)... Impermanence.
May we intentionally use the gift of this life well.
一We Are the Practice Itself
May we intentionally use the gift of this life well.
一We Are the Practice Itself
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 AM
常 (Mujō)... Impermanence.
May we intentionally use the gift of this life well.
一We Are the Practice Itself
May we intentionally use the gift of this life well.
一We Are the Practice Itself
Thinking mind detours.
The leaf falls, feeling the air.
Zazen tastes its sweat.
清峰
Calligraphy note: Chokū (直) Directness that leave zero room for theory… Thinking… Opinion.
The leaf falls, feeling the air.
Zazen tastes its sweat.
清峰
Calligraphy note: Chokū (直) Directness that leave zero room for theory… Thinking… Opinion.
January 1, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Thinking mind detours.
The leaf falls, feeling the air.
Zazen tastes its sweat.
清峰
Calligraphy note: Chokū (直) Directness that leave zero room for theory… Thinking… Opinion.
The leaf falls, feeling the air.
Zazen tastes its sweat.
清峰
Calligraphy note: Chokū (直) Directness that leave zero room for theory… Thinking… Opinion.
A topic which apparently can be so complex for some… It literally took 13 chapters to explain it down to the ground. ‘Merica! We Do It Big!
December 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A topic which apparently can be so complex for some… It literally took 13 chapters to explain it down to the ground. ‘Merica! We Do It Big!
Iyoi (愈) 一 to heal; a return to completeness, to wholeness.
Healing is not an escape from suffering, nor a project to repair what we imagine is broken. Often it is a leaning toward what hurts一without distraction, without story, without the demand一and a willingness to compost our experience.
Healing is not an escape from suffering, nor a project to repair what we imagine is broken. Often it is a leaning toward what hurts一without distraction, without story, without the demand一and a willingness to compost our experience.
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Iyoi (愈) 一 to heal; a return to completeness, to wholeness.
Healing is not an escape from suffering, nor a project to repair what we imagine is broken. Often it is a leaning toward what hurts一without distraction, without story, without the demand一and a willingness to compost our experience.
Healing is not an escape from suffering, nor a project to repair what we imagine is broken. Often it is a leaning toward what hurts一without distraction, without story, without the demand一and a willingness to compost our experience.
What is zen? Freedom from giving our attention to mind’s narrative of suffering.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
What is zen? Freedom from giving our attention to mind’s narrative of suffering.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
Understanding this principle has mattered a lot to my practice of The Way.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
December 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Understanding this principle has mattered a lot to my practice of The Way.
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
Sononmama (そのまま)… BEing with Reality, As It Is without flipping It into what it is not… a hallucination, masquerading as Truth.
一We Are the Practice Itself
一We Are the Practice Itself
December 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Sononmama (そのまま)… BEing with Reality, As It Is without flipping It into what it is not… a hallucination, masquerading as Truth.
一We Are the Practice Itself
一We Are the Practice Itself
When we align our words and actions with the intention to love, we're not performing kindness or following a rule; we're recognizing something true about our authentic nature.
一We Are the Practice Itself
一We Are the Practice Itself
December 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
When we align our words and actions with the intention to love, we're not performing kindness or following a rule; we're recognizing something true about our authentic nature.
一We Are the Practice Itself
一We Are the Practice Itself
Identity passes through awareness like weather through seamless, unbroken sky. It never owns the space it moves through. It’s simply making temporary use of what is always free and available.
一We All Share the Same Sky
一We All Share the Same Sky
December 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Identity passes through awareness like weather through seamless, unbroken sky. It never owns the space it moves through. It’s simply making temporary use of what is always free and available.
一We All Share the Same Sky
一We All Share the Same Sky
A gentle PSA for all those holiday bellringers out there
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
December 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A gentle PSA for all those holiday bellringers out there
一Dignity and Grace
一Dignity and Grace
Thinking is coming and going. Our authentic nature does not.
清峰
清峰
December 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thinking is coming and going. Our authentic nature does not.
清峰
清峰