Hello. Today we reached the 60th day of this 90 day retreat and thought we’d share one of the 60 teachings offered during this 90 day retreat thus far. The focus of the retreat is…
Friendship, Sickness, Aging and Death is common to us all. Especially during this worldwide pandemic. Venerable Lao Huo Shakya offers us a personal and traditional Buddhist response to those who lose a loved one. The…
Dogen’s Fifth Awareness: Unfailing Recollection Unfailing: without error or fault; reliable or constant Recollection: action of remembering something Ah…but what are we to remember without error or fault? Our Social Security number? Our birth date?.…
Welcome to this wonderful, iconic essay of our late teacher Ming Zhen Shakya. Many may know this article was published on the Chinese Buddhist website here. Also, for those who do know of Hank Hill…
As Freud said, “Love and work..work and love.. what else is there really?” He also was overwrought about death. “Why am I looking at Freud?” Because we are living in a heightened awareness of the…
Happy Birthday & A Feast Day This past week we celebrated the day considered to be the birth day of Shakyamuni Buddha and the feast day of Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic. Many…
Quietude – a state of stillness; calmness, and quiet in a person or place Really, quietude is not about noise or sound or silence. It’s not a drugged state either. Some stories come to mind…
Often in spiritual life we find seekers rather than seers. It comes out of our misunderstanding of Reality. Below there are two stories that show us when we seek, we get worn out and feel…
Heave-to is a sailing maneuver used to slow a boat down in heavy seas. It is done by adjusting the sails and dropping the ship’s anchor in a storm. This maneuver keeps the boat from…
Spiritual life is a battlefield. Over time, the battle worsens for the serious spiritual adept – threats along the path are more ominous. The path narrows. The dangers more perilous. Hazards multiply. The demons of…
