WHAT NEXT?
How do I fully live life until I die? Having retired from being Abbot at a Sōtō Zen monastery, and now living in a small village near Cambridge in the UK, there is the wish to live brightly until … Continue reading →
Death
A Lamp Unto The World
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 →
Two Old Men on a Park Bench
First published in the September—December 2022 edition of the Portobello Buddhist Priory Newsletter. A few days ago a friend and I were sitting on a park bench in a little park above the River Clyde near New Lanark. … Continue reading →
Death
This article is one of the chapters from a new book called Birth and Death written by Rev. Master Leandra which was published recently. More information about the book follows the article. I find more and more often … Continue reading →
“This I Offer…”
Based on a talk given to the Sandpoint Meditation Group on November 6, 2021. At the memorial for Rev. Master Jiyu that preceded this talk we recited the Sandōkai and The Most Excellent Mirror–Samādhi. Oftentimes during a retreat, through … Continue reading →
Grief and Impermanence
A transcript of a talk given at the Segaki Retreat at Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey in 2019. Don’t we all experience grief? For me there are times when grief is very powerfully felt, yet even then, I watch it coming … Continue reading →
Dealing with Fear and Uncertainty during the Covid-19 outbreak
Everyone has been deeply affected by the CV-19 outbreak. One of most difficult aspects of the situation has been that our natural wish to help others has been thwarted by the need for ‘social isolation’. For example one concerned person … Continue reading →
There’s nothing wrong with death: the teaching of Rev. Master Meiten McGuire
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 →