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Monastic adventures
Returning from a week’s worth of 19-hour days at a monastery has to be a shock to a man’s system. Before travelling south (a two-hour ferry and five-hour car ride), I’d schemed to as… more →
"there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado
Stillness and Silence: a Zen Buddhist Retreat
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Tony wrote 1 week ago: I recently attended a three day meditation retreat with Tenshin Roshi, Reb Anderson who is a senior … more →
New Year Sesshin
zenireland wrote 1 week ago: The retreat will be held in the Irish Guides Centre, Mote Park, Roscommon (just ouside Roscommon tow … more →
Margaret—Brave Soldier, Brave Soul
Phil Bolsta wrote 5 months ago: Donald Schnell and Marilyn Diamond Donald Schnell told me a moving story about a very brave woman fo … more →
Endangered Silence
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Sarah McLean wrote 5 months ago: I got up early and went outside. The wilderness in my backyard was still and quiet. There was no bre … more →
Zen Again
Keith wrote 7 months ago: My teacher (did I really say that? more on this later), Zentatsu Baker-Roshi, is in Boulder this wee … more →
Zen Sesshin
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Keith wrote 8 months ago: The very next day after returning from Mexico I headed to Crestone, Colorado to spend a week at the … more →
monastic adventures
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monkeymind wrote 1 year ago: Returning from a week’s worth of 19-hour days at a monastery has to be a shock to a man’ … more →
going on retreat is *not* about taking it easy
monkeymind wrote 1 year ago: At last I get to go on retreat at my home monastery. Each month the community there closes the gates … more →
Zen Retreat (2): Pain, here I Are
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understandingcat wrote 1 year ago: “…In an appropriate place for sitting, set out a thick mat and put a round cushion on to … more →
Zen Retreat (1): Almost picnic on the rocks
understandingcat wrote 1 year ago: Unquestionably, there are more subtle and less exotic ways of sending one’s body and mind into … more →
Gone fishing... on a Zen retreat
understandingcat wrote 1 year ago: Since I am not going to Green Gulch at the moment, Green Gulch seems to be coming to me (by way of t … more →
the sounds of silence
monkeymind wrote 1 year ago: By the time you read this, I’ll have arrived at Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon … more →
a miracle
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Robert wrote 1 year ago: Do you know what I find a true miracle? The fact that the little dwarf, my son, over here: in about … more →
day retreat on mayne island
monkeymind wrote 40 years ago: Zen monasteries and practice centres customarily set aside a week each month for silent meditating, … more →
