Work as Devotion; It’s All About Attention
WAIT! May I Have Your Attention? Getting off track and daydreaming or entering a scattered mind state seems like an epidemic. From screen watching… Read More »Work as Devotion; It’s All About Attention
WAIT! May I Have Your Attention? Getting off track and daydreaming or entering a scattered mind state seems like an epidemic. From screen watching… Read More »Work as Devotion; It’s All About Attention
Ming Zhen Shakya speaks on….Expectations & Martin Buber Ming Zhen Shakya speaks…On Expectations Expectations by Ming Zhen Shakya, OHY What backsliding is to religious conversion,… Read More »
May we with all beings realize the emptiness of the three wheels, giver, receiver and gift. Language helps us understand but it does not take… Read More »90 Days of Silence
Work! Your Hair is on Fire! Don’t say, “I DON’T HAVE TIME!” Those words do not encourage, they deflate and burden the mind. It is,… Read More »The Will to Choose
Sacrifice Innumerable Sacrifices A Daily Practice of Devotion Let’s start with a chant, Innumerable Sacrifices. Innumerable sacrifices brought us this food; We consider how… Read More »
Hell is empty… and all the devils are here. The Tempest, Shakespeare This fellow Shakespeare knew a thing or two. The line comes from the… Read More »Remembrance of Karma Yoga
The Third Position: Neither Here, Nor There It is just a matter of hitting the bell, closing the door, lighting a candle. In the past… Read More »The Third Position: Neither Here, Nor There
Right Understanding. Let me begin with a definition of right understanding. It is a teaching of the Eightfold Path and is considered the root… Read More »Someone Asked. And the Answer is: Right Understanding
Remembrance of Aging The Four Boons of Aging. My hope is to pull the door open, even if it is just a crack, on what… Read More »Old Age is a Boon
A Single Thread, The Zen Contemplative Order of Hsu Yun Welcomes Old Heart Mountain, 老心山, Lǎo xīn shān shakya aka Arakawa Mitsugi to our Order.… Read More »Welcome Our New Member
Escape from Hell We named him Arthur which is a name derived from the word bear. In Medieval Latin Arthurus/Arturus, usually said to be from… Read More »The Arthur Sermon
Flee the chit chat with others, except as an act of charity. Love people very much. Talk with few. Talk with moderation. Put nothing… Read More »Dogen’s 8th Awareness: Not Engaging in Vain Talk