In this article, first published online in the Dew on the Grass blog, Anna describes how her childhood experience of pain caused a disconnect between body and mind, as a method of survival, and how Buddhist practice, over time, was … Continue reading →
This title may be taken as sounding rather weary, dreary and depressed, or as a statement of positive basic Buddhist training. Both are true for me, and I will continue this training forever. It may not match up with … Continue reading →
I am alive! and I love my old age. When I was younger I felt so much confusion and hesitation, many doubts and fears, and I felt vulnerable. There was so much I didn’t understand. I was a foreigner … Continue reading →
The Vancouver Island Zen Sangha is delighted to announce that Coming Home – Taking Refuge Within, the long-awaited new book of Rev. Master Meiten McGuire’s writings and reflections, is now available. The following piece is a previously unpublished chapter … Continue reading →
The “Yes” of the heart towards whatever is here for us right now, both in our inner life and in the outer circumstances of our life, even when it is imbued with suffering, is an aspect of the Heart/Mind … Continue reading →
This article was originally published, in serialized form, in the Portland Buddhist Priory Newsletter.’ It will appear in the Journal in two parts, the second one will follow in the next issue. One of my favorite short pieces … Continue reading →
This article was published on the Dragon Bell Temple website, February 2022. In trying to become an accepting person, we get in our own way and smother the possibility of real acceptance. At best we make a clumsy imitation of … Continue reading →
I am in the retreat hut. There is a slow and irregular pitter-patter of raindrops on the roof. Still half-asleep, I rub my eyes, remembering that after meditation last night I discovered that a large candle on the altar had … Continue reading →
Choosing to Train Rev. Master Rokuzan Kroenke —Columbia Zen Buddhist Priory, Columbia, SC–USA— From Columbia Zen Buddhist Priory Newsletter, December 2005, Number 10. In our training, we have the choice to see our suffering as an opportunity to train … Continue reading →