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Killing by visiting writer Sophia Meyer-Greene

by Yao Xiang Shakya
February 14, 2018

Imaginative. Evocative. Lingering. Has Sophia Meyer-Greene tapped into our universal trait in her new flash fiction…. Killing “It has to be done,” she writes. “It has to.” She asserts. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Killing By Sophia…

Mystical Zen by Ming Zhen Shakya

by Yao Xiang Shakya
February 6, 2018

On Zenmar’s Presentation of The Sutta on Antecedentness by Breath by Ming Zhen Shakya, OHY (Majjhima Nikaya 3.82 Translated by Ven. Shakya Aryanatta. From The Authorized Dark Zen Meditation Manual of Buddhism.) The question has long…

It’s Broken

by Yao Xiang Shakya
January 16, 2018January 17, 2018

Some time ago I heard this story….told by a Buddhist teacher. She with several others went on a trip to Southeast Asia to work with Theravada Buddhist monks. When they arrived they were shown to…

Our Deepest Condolences to Our Former Abbot John

by Yao Xiang Shakya
January 3, 2018January 3, 2018

Abbot John’s dearest wife, Nanci died on New Year’s Eve after a long struggle with illness. Dear Abbot John, We send you our deepest condolences on the wings of two poems from masters who offer what…

FREE E-BOOK. Alchemical Detachment & Integration by Ming Zhen Shakya

by Yao Xiang Shakya
January 2, 2018January 13, 2018

FREE E-BOOK Alchemical Detachment & Integration by Ming Zhen Shakya

An Old Woman Trains to Be a Monk: Her Journey

by Yao Xiang Shakya
December 19, 2017December 19, 2017

It’s never too late!

ALCHEMICAL DETACHMENT AND INTEGRATION Part 3 by Ming Zhen Shakya

by Yao Xiang Shakya
December 17, 2017

As you read this final part of a three part explanation by Ming Zhen Shakya keep it mind that it is all model and metaphor and not to be taken literally.

SOMETHING NEW

by Yao Xiang Shakya
December 10, 2017December 10, 2017

Please SCROLL DOWN to the BOTTOM of the Page ____ ZATMA offers something new for those who’d like to stay in touch. Receive notices of new essays and news from ZATMA when they are posted. Scroll down to…

Spiritual Travels: What Brought Me to Here, A Monk’s Training Log

by Yao Xiang Shakya
December 9, 2017

This draft attempts to describe some of my strongest tendencies and activities primarily during my adult life. This initial effort may include assertions and observations that are fanciful, incomplete, or perhaps untrue. I have found…

ALCHEMICAL DETACHMENT AND INTEGRATION Part 2 by Ming Zhen Shakya

by Yao Xiang Shakya
December 6, 2017

And now if any be ignorant, let him be ignorant. I know not what more to say and not transgress the Silence of Pythagoras.” – Sir Isaac Newton, Alchemical manuscript, The Regimen (MSS 1032B RB…

A Spiritual Refugee Trains to Live as a Monk in the World: A Biography.

by Yao Xiang Shakya
November 20, 2017November 21, 2017

This biography is about an ordinary woman. A householder. Married. Children. Work. Aging. Illness. And all the ordinary things of life….except in the middle of it all, she looked for Truth….something universal, bigger than material…

ALCHEMICAL DETACHMENT AND INTEGRATION – Part 1 by Ming Zhen Shakya

by Yao Xiang Shakya
November 13, 2017November 13, 2017

I felt an overwhelming sense of power – like God must feel when he’s carrying a gun.” — H. J. Simpson’s apology upon being expelled from the National Rifle Association for misusing a firearm.…