Annatta, the idea that there is no self, is a different way of thinking about yourself. The way you see yourself now is wrong. You have ideas about what you are that include all kinds of things that aren’t you and exclude lots of other things that are you. We strongly identify our bodies with…
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 MoreZen teaching, the Dharma, passes from teacher to student, person to person, and has done so since the time of the Buddha, roughly 2,500 years ago. What each teacher passes to each student is a way of seeing things differently. The way we see things, with our eyes, with our minds, with our ears, can…
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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