WAIT! May I Have Your Attention? Getting off track and daydreaming or entering a scattered mind state seems like an epidemic. From screen watching news to sports to politics to ads of every stripe…
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, recidivism is to penal rehabilitation. Both represent failure, and Zen…
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 us beyond the material realm. Those who want to go…
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, as some might say, stupid to think repeating those words is in…
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 it comes to us. We reflect on our virtue and…
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 mouth of the young character, Ferdinand who has just experienced…
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 IT abides. In the future IT abides. But don’t ask,…
Right Understanding. Let me begin with a definition of right understanding. It is a teaching of the Eightfold Path and is considered the root in the ground of the Lotus. It is embedded in…
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 is beneficial in the truth of aging. I’ll begin by…
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. Old Mountain, as he likes to be called, is previously…
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 Welsh arth means “bear.” In sanskrit, artha means wealth, the…
Flee the chit chat with others, except as an act of charity. Love people very much. Talk with few. Talk with moderation. Put nothing or no one between you and the Source. Do not…
