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. I gave a little talk during our Rohatsu sitting. Unfortunately, it was never recorded. But I really liked it! So, I think I will give the short version again … today. It’s about why the Buddha was a ‘Big Quitter’ – and that’s not a bad thing!! In his searching for answers, he finally…

As Buddhists we might say … “This is the first moment of the rest of your moments”. It sounds trite, but it is true. Trite but true. And what the next moment becomes is greatly up to you. Trite but true too. Ah, freedom is hard to handle (also trite but true!). Press on arrow…

. Today, an old Zenfriend stops by … Richard. We haven’t seen each other for a very long time. Since we’re leaving Florida, I might not see him again for a long time. Trying to sit with some of the Zen folks here before that. Richie hasn’t been sitting for awhile (too much time floating…

.Today, a long sitting to celebrate Shakyamuni’s Moment of Realization under the Bodhi Tree, some 2,500 years ago … … After sitting, day upon day, having searched everywhere, he finally found something always right there. Perhaps, in giving up the search, he truly saw. In commemoration of this attaining of non-attaining, we will sit long…

. Please see information on our upcoming ‘ZAZENATHON’, a special focused sitting this Friday to celebrate ‘ROHATSU’ (Buddha’s Enlighenment Day) . . The ‘last’ branch of the ‘Eightfold Path‘ is ‘Right Concentration’, ‘Right Meditation’ … … Zazen But the path has no beginning, no end … each branch supporting and supported by the others Press…

. Please see information on our upcoming ‘ZAZENATHON’, a special focused sitting this Friday to celebrate ‘ROHATSU’ (Buddha’s Enlighenment Day) . . ‘Right Mindfulness‘ is not just a single state of mind, but provides us with a variety of mental tools for encountering our world and our selves (not two) each moment of each day…

. Please see information on our upcoming ‘ZAZENATHON’, a special focused sitting this Friday to celebrate ‘ROHATSU’ (Buddha’s Enlighenment Day) . . The hyper-idealized, super-human images of the Buddha and Ancestors contained in the Sutras and other Buddhist storybooks have (in many ways) done Buddhism a great disservice. I think. People writing such religious legends…

. Please see information on our upcoming ‘ZAZENATHON’, a special focused sitting this Friday to celebrate ‘ROHATSU’ (Buddha’s Enlighenment Day) . . ‘Right Mindfulness’ of ‘things without’ is an awareness and understanding of the events that surround us in the present moment, seeing clearly phenomena as they arise and how we perceive them. We experience…

. The seventh branch of the ‘Eightfold Path‘ is ‘Right Mindfulness’ … It may be termed a ‘mindfulness‘ of things within and things without (though those are not truly ‘two’. We will talk about ‘things without‘ tomorrow). ‘Right Mindfulness’ of things within includes being attentive to our inner conditions, the causes and workings of the…

. I am so happy to present as a guest teacher today Mitch Doshin Cantor, the leader of the Southern Palm Zen Group in Florida… Doshin, a Dharma Heir of Peter Muryo Matthiessen in Maezumi Roshi’s White Plum Lineage, is my adopted Zen ‘Dad‘ in Florida (I don’t think he will mind if I call…
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