What's New: recent, current, coming soon . . .

7/25/25: Desert Rain Zen is now podcasting

Search "Desert Rain Zen" on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your other favorite podcast platform. We'll be adding more talks by Tenney or other Open Source teachers each month.

7/4/25: I posted some new Zen writing that you can read here on the website--versions of talks I gave on "The world of dew" at our Desert Rain spring retreat. You can read them here.

I have a new Zen essay coming out pretty soon as a chapbook from (my poetry publisher) Chax Press:

Check back soon for more information, including a blurb or two . . . Thanks to Chax publisher Charles Alexander for doing the chapbook!

"'Subtle Touch': Koans, Poems, and the Body of Awakening."

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