Daniel Scharpenburg
Daniel Scharpenburg lives in Kansas City. He’s a Zen Priest and Teacher in the Dharma Winds Zen Tradition. He regularly teaches at the Open Heart Project and he leads public meditations.
He believes the path is really about opening ourselves up and becoming more genuine and real. He has been called “a great everyman teacher” and “really down to earth.” He believes in meeting people where they are and sharing teachings as widely as he can.
His writing has appeared in Lion’s Roar, The Secular Buddhist, Patheos, and Elephant Journal.
He has given public teachings at the Rime Buddhist Center and at the Heartland Pagan Festival.
The First Buddhist Teaching: The Four Noble Truths
By Daniel Scharpenburg The Four Noble Truths are the beginning of Buddhism. They are the first thing the Buddha taught, and sometimes we have to go back to these fundamental teachings over and over. I'm going to go through them one by one here. The Truth of...
Equanimity in Adversity: A Zen Story about Wild Horses
By Daniel Scharpenburg There's an old zen story I really like and I want to share it with you here. There is speculation that it's a daoist story that the zennists appropriated, but for our purposes here that doesn't matter very much. It's about expectations...