Summertime Schedule

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Friends, For the last few years, I have been taking the month of August off for some personal time. This year, it will be September. I will be in North Carolina from August 25, 2025, through September 28th, 2025. There will be no OZS Practice sessions during this time. Our in-person and Zoom practice sessions will continue in October. I will also be scheduling our yearly fall Silent Retreat at Myakka River State Park on a Saturday in November. I […]

I have no words, a walk down the road of habit

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 I have no words. There’s nothing I can give you that you don’t already have. There’s nothing I can add to what you already are. So we use words because we’ve forgotten who we are in our ignorance. We walk down the road of habit energy, it drags us along like a chain, and we struggle. As we go down the path of getting to know ourselves, we discover that there are options for us that we didn’t think we […]

The Three Principles of the Middle Way

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First principle: There is no solid ground under your feet, and there’s no tile above your head. This refers to emptiness —that nothing is permanent; everything is constantly changing. Second principle: The sky is blue, the grass is green, cars are driving by outside. This is dependent origination — if this happens, that happens. Third principle: It is neither this nor that. Neither is nor isn’t. Before there’s an I, already you see, already you hear.  You can be without […]

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