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Get Out of Your Head
When we project conditioning from our past onto the present, we turn a benign moment into something else. Understanding the “five conditions” can help us get back to reality. By Sean Murphy Like many
I can write again – It becomes concrete
08. Nov 2023 Bernie Glassman and Zen Peacemakers/The deep meaning of begging for malas/street retreats In 2007 I must have heard about Zen Peacemakers, probably through the Dharma teacher Werner Heidenreich, who told me about
Everything is Practice
Dharma Talk 24/07/23 – Richard Warner For the Dharma talk this week I wanted to take up a phrase teacher Richard Herps used in his talk last week. If I remember correctly Roshi Cecilie asked
Fury & Faith
Fury & Faith by Amanda Gorman You will be told this is not a problem, Not your problem. You will be told now is not the time For change to begin, Told that we cannot win. But
Memories of Maezumi Roshi
by Bernie GlassmanI first met Maezumi Roshi in 1963. At that time, he was a young Soto monk working in Los Angeles at Zenshuji under Sumi Roshi, then Sokan of North America. I attended a
Sister Mary 0’Sullivan: Gentle Sound
by Monika Jion Winkelmann In these three months of November 2022-2023, Sister Mary, the third person so dear to me, has died. Those who met her, usually in the large foyer of the “Center