An edited transcript of a talk given at Shasta in March 2024. Last month I celebrated my 50th ordination anniversary as a monk. I don’t mention this because I think it was a big deal, a great accomplishment or anything … Continue reading →
7th August 1941 – 3rd May 2023 After many months of declining health, Reverend Master Jishō Perry passed away on May 3rd, 2023. He had been a monk of the Order for fifty-three years, since the very early years of … Continue reading →
A transcript of a Recorded Dharma Talk for Wallowa Buddhist Temple Congregation, November 6, 2020. From west to east, unseen, flowed out the Mind of India’s greatest Sage And to the source kept true as an unsullied stream is … Continue reading →
With sadness we announce the death of Reverend Master Saidō Kennaway, a much-loved and deeply appreciated and respected member of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives, and Prior of Telford Buddhist Priory. Reverend Master Saidō passed away on Friday 3rd … Continue reading →
A personal tribute to Reverend Master Saidō Kennaway who entered Parinirvana on 3rd March 2023. The death of a monk, or of any person, is the unfolding of the Buddha’s Teaching. It is part of ‘existence, time, flow’. … Continue reading →
This is an edited transcript of a talk given at the temple in October 2021. I’d like to take a look at the chapter in Roar of the Tigress, Volume Two called Beyond the Dream1. And since this … Continue reading →
Often in our practice it is helpful to go back to basics, to see what it is we are doing in meditation. The aspect I’d like to draw out is ‘deliberate thought’. I imagine that these words will remind you … Continue reading →
It is so painfully obvious that absolutely everything is impermanent. Over and over, our clinging to that which is impermanent is the cause of dissatisfaction in our lives, so much so that we humans seem hard-wired to re-experience this dissatisfaction, … Continue reading →
Rev. Master Meiten died peacefully in the early evening of Tuesday 2nd January 2018 in Victoria, British Columbia. She was 92 years of age. She offered to others the teaching and practice that had changed her own life; as she … Continue reading →
In the chapter on the First Column of Light in Reverend Master Jiyu’s book How to Grow a Lotus Blossom, there is the image of a person standing in a pillar of light underneath a dark cloud, looking up towards … Continue reading →