Fran Kaplan shares her retreat experience at the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry in upstate New York. All Day Retreat in Nature, Saturday, November 19, 2022! Join Ordinary Zen Sangha for our all-day retreat at Myakka River State Park. Mark your calendars!
Tag Archives: Meditation
All Meeting Ends In Parting
The groundlessness of being.
Time Travelers
Dependent origination = A time of reckoning.
The Mind King
“Verses of the Mind King” is attributed to Fu Dashi (a famous Chinese sixth-century Lay Buddhist). The poem, having referred to the Mind King, who, for all his importance, is not evident to the senses, goes on to say: The salt put in water / the glue put in paint – Certainly these are present / But we cannot see their form. The Mind King is also thus / Abiding within the body, Going in and out the (gate of […]
Walking in Buddha’s Footprints
Just like this, each step we take is walking in Buddha’s footprints.
The Great Way
The what, why, and how of Ordinary Zen practice.
Stormy Nights
Sitting still on a stormy night.
Self Mastery, Relaxing Into What Is
What is the source of tension in your life?
Visiting with an old master of Zen – Linji
Today’s Dharma Talk includes a reading from “The Record of Linji” – translation and commentary by Ruth Fuller Sasaki. “I believe that Zen, particularly Rinzai Zen, has a significant role in the present world. Modern people are adrift amid the great confusion and uncertainty of contemporary life. The Linji lu can give us a foundation on which to construct a new and powerful view of human existence.” –Yamada Mumon