Suzuki Roshi was the founder of the Zen Center in San Francisco, Green Gulch Farm in Sausalito, and the Tassajara Hot Springs monastery in Carmel Valley. Unfortunately for me, he died before my first Zen sesshin at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1972. Fortunately, he lives on through the excellent dharma teachers at the San […]
Archives for May 2013
Mindfulness Is Not Just Bare Attention
May 5, 2013 by
Poep Sa Frank Jude is an OI1 member and a dharma teacher. He joined the conversation we had about the Boston bombings a couple of weeks ago. For example, see Don’t Despair – Take Action, All You Need Is Love, We Need To Root Out Seeds Of Anger, and A Marine And An Army Veteran. I’ve been meaning to […]
Buddha Gate Monastery
May 4, 2013 by
Last Saturday, my wife and I visited the Buddha Gate Monastery in Lafayette, California. The monastery is on 17 acres of beautiful land in what is know as the East Bay of San Francisco. [Read More…] The monastery is supported by the Chan tradition of Grand Master Venerable Wei Chueh who organized many monasteries in Taiwan as well as […]
Planting Seeds Of Compassion
May 3, 2013 by
On Monday, I posted the Words of Wisdom chosen by Lama Surya Das in an article titled Acceptance, Joy, Peace And Love. The quote in that article was from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, affectionately known as Thay by his followers. This quote is also from Thay and it came to me Wednesday morning from […]
A Meditation Practice From One Of My Readers
May 2, 2013 by
In a chat conversation with one of my readers, I sent her the link to my video of the First Mindfulness Meditation Practice. I am including it here for you to watch as well. Then she replied with this: Wow, it is great. Would do you think about this, I heard that this is very […]
Happiness And The Experience Of No Self
May 1, 2013 by
Polly Young-Eisendrath is a scholar of Buddhism and Western psychology. She gave this Tedx talk at Middlebury University on Getting Free Of Self-Importance Is The Key To Happiness. The gist of her talk was that self-consciousness and self-centeredness lead us into the experience of self conscious emotions. She lists shame, guilt, envy, and jealousy as the […]
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