Beings are countless; I vow to liberate us all. Sufferings are inexhaustible; I vow to cut through them all. Enlightened teachings are boundless; I vow to learn them all. The Awakened Way is unsurpassable; I vow to become it fully. These are the Four Boddhisatva Vows that are at the center of Zen Buddhism and many…
Read MoreDo all the changes and demands of your everyday life make it hard to find time to simply be? You’ve read it right: to simply be is the way of Zen. It is easier said than done, so we have created formal meditation and all those rituals to help you ease into that habit. If…
Read MoreFor some unknown karmic reason, I had the fortune to visit or befriend a lot of Bikkhus from different Mahayana traditions this year, so I interviewed many of them about the renunciant monastic lifestyle. I then organized these conversations into notes and thought that the information might be interesting and useful for some others as…
Read MoreThere is a saying in Zen that if you have time, meditate for 20 minutes a day. If you don’t have time, meditate for an hour a day. A big obstacle to meditation is that it is hard to set aside the time to practice. Practicing for one minute, a few or several times a…
Read MoreThe Cantor Art Center’s had an exhibition on the Buddha’s Words, and it was a great opportunity to meditate in the gallery. Most of the artifacts here are from oceans away, and some of them are over one thousand years old, yet we can intimately experience them by meditating on our body and mind. I…
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